The most important reading of all...
The reading we do as children may be more serious than any reading we'll ever do again. Books for children and young people are unashamedly prescriptive: They're written, at least in part, to teach us what the world is like, how people are, and how we should behave--as my colleague Megan Kelso (The Squirrel Mother) puts it, "How to be a human being."
- from the article "When Books Could Change Your Life" by Tim Kreider
- from the article "When Books Could Change Your Life" by Tim Kreider