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.

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