“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” – Arnold Lobel
If you’re looking for good quotes about children reading, look no further. I’ve curated over 60 of the best reading quotes for kids and categorised them as follows:
- Our top ten best reading quotes for kids
- Children’s reading quotes
- Quotes about reading from children’s literature
- Dr Seuss reading quotes
- Quotes about learning to read
Top ten best reading quotes for kids
- “Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” – Arnold Lobel
- “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
- “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx
- “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
- “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” – Roald Dahl (Matilda)
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
- “I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.”
- “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”
- “Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” – Betty Smith
- “So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” – William James
Children’s reading quotes
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J.K. Rowling“
- Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” – Arnold Lobel
- “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
- “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx
- “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
- “Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac
- “Books train your mind to imagination to think big.” – Taylor Swift
- “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx
- “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
- “Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” – J.K. Rowling
- “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” – Carl Sagan
- “The content of a book holds the power of education, and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” -Malala Yousafzai
- “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.” – Neil Gaiman
- “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
- “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
- “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
- “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
- “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
- “Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
- “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.” – Neil Gaiman
- “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley
- “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” – E.P. Whipple
- “A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.” – Louis L’Amour
- “It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” – Jane Hamilton
- “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor
- “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” – C.S. Lewis
Quotes about reading from children’s literature
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
- “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” – Roald Dahl (Matilda)
- “Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” – Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
- “A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,’ a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” – Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)
- “Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all.” – Philip Pullman (The Book Dust)
- “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Dr Seuss reading quotes
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
- “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
- “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
- “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”
- “My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It’s the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You’ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around.”
- “Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
- “You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”
- “I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.”
- “Fiction is my addiction.”
- “Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”
- “A book is just like life and anything can change.”
- “You really can’t teach reading as a science. Love gets mixed up in it.”
Quotes about learning to read
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” – Betty Smith
- “So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” – William James
- “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” – Victor Hugo
- “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” – Emilie Buchwald
- “One of the greatest gifts adults can give -to their offspring and to their society- is to read to children.” – Carl Sagan
- “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Anita Merina
- “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” – Roald Dahl
- “When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again.” – Rumer Godden
- “Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there was discovered a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- “Reading is the gateway for children that makes all other learning possible.” – Barack Obama
- “Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.” – Art Spiegelman
- “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou
- “It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations-something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” – Katherine Patterson
- “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
- “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” – Kate DiCamillo
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Liz Hurley has 30+ years of high school teaching experience and is one of our senior writers here at Learnopoly.