Kate DiCamillo Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Reading, Thinking

• I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fun, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

• I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Fun, Guarantees That

  Source: bookpage.com

• Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Hands

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

• Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Reading, Kids

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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