Love and A Love of Reading

"A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for a great life."

~the Dalai Lama~

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
~ Emilie Buchwald~

"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read."
~ Marilyn Jager Adams~

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."
~ Jacqueline Kennedy~

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
~ Lady Montagu, providing advice on raising her granddaughter, 1752~

"You may have tangible wealth untold. / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be – / I had a mother who read to me."
~ Strickland Gillilan~

The photos are of Casi reading to Mei-Ling as he does every night, as Emery did every night to our girls. Even as infants, they would be on Emery's lap, while he read to them. Both girls are lovers of books and Mei-Ling is already that way. We can't go any place without her having a stack of books next to her in her car seat. Love grows in the time spent together and a love of reading is fostered and that is a profound gift we can give that costs us nothing but a few moments of our time.