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Avoid Demonizing Television, Computer Games, And New Technologies. Electronic Media May Compete For Kids' Attention, But We're Not Going To Get Kids Reading By Badmouthing Other Entertainment. Admit That Tv And Games Can Do Things Books Can't.

There Are Six Time Warp Trio Books That Would Take A Page Each To Fully Praise. And I Just Thought Up Twelve More While I Was Typing This Sentence.

For The Longest Time, You Couldnt Even Say Boys And Girls Were Different. It Was Taboo In The Educational World.

I Think Every Parent Knows That, Like, Boys And Girls Are Different. And We Just Dont Take That Into Account In Schools On Those Things Like Required Reading Lists. Cause That Was My Experience, Say, With My Son, Who Had To Read Little House On The Prairie When He Was In Third Grade.

My Platform Has Been To Reach Reluctant Readers. And One Of The Best Ways I Found To Motivate Them Is To Connect Them With Reading That Interests Them, To Expand The Definition Of Reading To Include Humor, Science Fiction/fantasy, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, Wordless Books, Audio Books And Comic Books.