The February issue of "School Library Journal" has an interview with Kate
DiCamillo, who has been recently named to this position, following in
the footsteps of Jon Scieszka, Katherine Paterson, and Walter Dean
Myers.
I loved her response to the question, "Any advice for teachers or
parents to create that environment, the same one that you were in, that
made you a reader?"
Kate: "Well, I have a couple of things just based on how I was
raised. Books were everywhere. And sometimes it's not financially
viable, but you can still get to the library. And then the other thing
is my mother read for her own pleasure. And reading
was never something that she said I had to do. I worry when people
insist that kids have to do it. I would want it to be this great gift
that you give yourself and not something that is a duty."
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