Who we are

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”― Margaret Fuller

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting”. – Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
“A child who reads is a contributing citizen in waiting”. – Alan Moon

“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.” -- Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one." – George R.R. Martin

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” – Victor Hugo

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The power of our imagination is engaged fully and completely through the words on a page”.

“Every kid needs to find the right book. And then the next one. And the world opens.”

“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.” ― Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

"If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important" - Gail Carson Levine Author of Ella Enchanted

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." - Jacqueline Kennedy

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader” - Margaret Fuller

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives. - Alain de Botton

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.” - Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Reading is to the soul what breathing is to the body." -Krista Carter

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” - Nelson Mandela

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” - Oscar Wilde

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?” -Lucy M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

"The ability to read opens doorways and pathways to the future and a venue for escaping to another world."

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions” - Albert Einstein

“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort – God, sex, food, family, friends – reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most under sung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.” - Anna Quindlen

“Reading is such an important part of creating a foundation for all that we will learn in life. A child embarking on life’s journey without the ability, the curiosity or the desire to read, risks compromising a strong foundation from which to grow and flourish on their journey.” - Steve Allan

“What really knocks me out is a book, that when you're all done reading it, you wish that the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him on the phone whenever you felt like it.” – J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye