The joy of sharing books is a gift.

I gave you a + rating for this, it's very good. I wonder if many parents these days make the time to sit and read with their children. Women are working, and are so tired when they get home to all the other chores. I grew up with all that, and love reading. I have wonderful memories of special times shared with my parents too.

I buy books for the kids for their birthdays, for Christmas, and for any other gift giving occaision there is. I think it's most important to give them books that they will be interested in reading to foster their reading skills. Plus, I read to them whenever I can so that they get to hear stories, and see how much I love to read too. I always tell them that with books we can travel anywhere we want to go to.

I just bought my nephew The Wind in the Willows. He loves to read and he's only 8 but reads at a 6th grade level. He loves reading and started his own library for him and his friends....quite the entrepeneur.

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature written in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame. The story is alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, focusing on four heavily anthropomorphised animal characters in a bucolic version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie. It gives as much pleasure to adult readers as to children, although for rather different reasons.

My children are all grown up as are my grandchildren and they all are excellent readers...I donot remember a lot but i know we visited the library on a regular basis and we had story telling time quite often both from reading and oral creations.But yes by all means try to create an interest in books and expose the kiddies to as much literary works as is possible Good luck My friend Have a Great Day

I do read books to my niece, I pass and share at her the knowledge to be able to appreciate small wonders that this world has given to us. I know that this would be a great help for her on the time she would go and venture out for school. And I am glad that she have made some interests from it, I just hope that she would also apply the teachings of the stories that I read for her..

We always read to our kids when they were small and today they still read. Reading is so very important. I worry about the kids today, they are spending too much time with video games. then need to get back into reading.

I love to buy my son and nieces books I think it is a great joy and even though they have lots of toys and clothes often as gifts for their birthdays etc. I always make a habit of buying them a book because i notice very few people do.

I totally agree. Book is always a great gift for anybody who read books. Specially for children it is good to give them book as a gift because we can make a habit of reading book for them.

I absolutely agree with you. My husband, myself and my daughter all LOVE reading.
I started reading to my daughter when she was 6 weeks old. Now she is in the gifted class at school.
We love giving books as gifts too.

My child is grown up and out of the house, but I taught her the value of books and the knowledge it brings. A child growing up without them, is surely a sad story. And I'm sure growing up with books are a rarity these days considering all the technology