Inculcating a Love for Reading
Wall Street Journal
Anyone who spent half of childhood curled up with a book knows the special urgency of wanting to pass that experience on. For many adults this natural desire is today intensified by the fatal allure of electronic entertainments. "Reading books of any kind simply makes a child's mind sharper," writes the actor Kirk Douglas in "Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Children's Book", a delightful nostalgic exercise in which prominent people reflect on the children's stories that shaped them.









