“The best way to cultivate their tastes is to read to them, starting at birth and keeping on and on. ‘Let me hear you read it’ is a test. ‘Let me read it to you.’ is a gift. So…read to them, read to them, read to them. For if we are careless in the matter of nourishing the imagination, the world will pay for it. The world already has.”

              Katherine Paterson, A Sense of Wonder