Jim Trelease Quotes About Poor Choices

• A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

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  Jim Trelease

  Home   Choices   Decision  

  Jim Trelease (2006). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.

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  Jim Trelease

  Children   Book   Reading  

  Jim Trelease (2001). “The Read-aloud Handbook”, Alloybooks

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