What's the one book that finally got your child (or you!) hooked on reading?

Share your "gateway book" in the comments below! 👇

#bookworm #bibliophile #readearly #readoften #readaloud #readeverything
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🤓A bit of bookish wisdom from the incomparable Lou Alcott:

"Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort."
-Louisa May Alcott

🎥: MidJourney
🎙️: ElevenLabs

#readearly #readoften #readaloud #kidlit #bibliophile

Color photo: Old illustrated page showing animals and the sounds they make (the serpent hisseth, the chicken peepeth, etc). Left: drawings of animals like cat, dog, and owl. Center: Latin phrases with English translations. Right: letters N-Z. 📸: John Comenius

John Comenius, a 17th-century Czech philosopher, championed the revolutionary idea that people learn via their senses, paving the way for more inclusive and effective teaching methods for young people.
📸: John Comenius

#readearly #readoften #readaloud
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(rider with >50 years in the wind)

There are lots of old bikers.
There are lots of bold bikers.
There are very few old bold bikers.
#StartSeeingMotorcycles 👀
#RideSafe #ReadOften #RockOn

Color illustration: a three figure sketch of Poot, a green sentient alien blob from the "My Teacher is an Alien" series by Bruce Coville. The top figure is Poot, arranged in a sluglike formation, asking the question "Poot?". The middle figure is Poot, still sluglike, eagerly saying "Poot!". The bottom figure is Poot emerging from his square container. His front end is decidedly sluglike, but 90% of his body is still filling his container like sourdough in tupperware. 📸: Victoria Taylor

Yours truly was outright thrilled to see Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is An Alien" series show up a handful of times in the comments. Wonderful writing, big ideas, and SPACE TRAVEL! Plus a happy little blob named Poot.*
📸: Victoria Taylor

#freadom #readearly #readoften
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Reading Rainbow and its 26 Emmy Awards are a testament to the power of storytelling, and a reminder that the so-called "literacy crisis" isn't a new phenomenon, nor is its evergreen solution: Reading more books!

There are lots of great ones out there in every language!

#readoften
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For your Civil Rights and Social Justice toolkits, an alphabetized collection of bespoke reading lists for young readers from Activism to Zinn! 💪

#readearly #readoften #readaloud
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Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...

Not sure why they didn’t see this coming. It’s like none of these law firm partners ever read a children’s or YA novel in their youth 💙📚 #ReadWidely #ReadOften

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

#BookSky! My January 2025 roundup courteously of #Bookly. And I just finished Book #6 “UNWIND” by Neal Schusterman if you’re into scify/dystopian fury, go with this. Looking forward to the rest of the series. #books #readmore #readoften #readnotscroll #booknerd

Congratulations, Malaya, you never cease to impress us! Thank you for showing the world that gap years take all forms, and for spending yours teaching children to read & learning to care for the sick.

Keep fighting the good fight!💪

#letfreedomread #readaloud #readoften #readeverything
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"Zadig, or The Book of Fate, is a novella by Voltaire. It tells the story of a Zoroastrian philosopher in ancient Babylonia." Reading this for the third time, and Irealised, like Frank Herbert, one doesn't 'read' Voltaire, one 'absorbes' 📖 #sponge #readmore #readoften

Interior of the Wellington Square Bookshop, featuring shelves full of books, a polished wood floor, and a rolling ladder to reach books on upper shelves

Small reasons to be happy.

7. Indie bookstores

#SmallReasonsToBeHappy #indiebookstore #smallbusiness #wellingtonsquarebookshop #fireflybookstore #cupboardmakerbooks #shoplocal #readoften

Color drawing of a little girl with brown skin standing on a stack of hardback books and reading aloud to a crowd of onlooking kids. Source caption reads: "Image: An excerpt from Peter H. Reynolds’ artwork for Scholastic on World Read Aloud Day"

"To recite poetry is to discover (as students) or rediscover (as educators) the ability of poets to speak down through the generations, using us as mouthpieces."

#readearly #readoften #readbannedbooks #readeverything

📸: Peter H. Reynolds
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𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 & 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 & 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲
Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter
https://bit.ly/3xHa62K

#readearly #readoften #readaloud #readeverything
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