Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.