Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
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