| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26521 |
| QUOTATION: | Children who are not spoken to by live and responsive adults will not learn to speak properly. Children who are not answered will stop asking questions. They will become incurious. And children who are not told stories and who are not read to will have few reasons for wanting to learn to read. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gail Haley (20th century). Quoted in The New Read-Aloud Handbook, by Jim Trelease (1985). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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