Read Aloud Quotes

“What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?"
Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child.”
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

“She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.”
― Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood

“For every book here she had heard their voices, father's and mother's. And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what they read aloud; it was the breath of life flowing between them, and the words of the moment riding on it that held them in delight. Between some two people every word is beautiful, or might as well be beautiful.”
― Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter

“Today we will read love poetry. You shall read aloud to me and we will weep together.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Make your voice heard, read to a child...”
― Nanette L. Avery

“If you like to hear yourself talk, read to a child...”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Are we nearly there now?" the bear asked, at regular intervals. His voice began to sound like a sigh because it was nearly time for lunch, and he wanted to stop by the sea.”
― Suzy Davies, Snugs The Snow Bear

“English is tough. It can be understood through tough, thorough, thought though.”
― Sophie