How to Inspire Your Kids to Love Reading

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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When we first began the podcast, our main goal was to inspire more folks to read. But we also talked about how we might offer content to help parents inspire their kids become life long readers. It isn’t easy, and there is no magic bullet, but we have some of the best of the best to tell us how to do it and why it’s so important. Emma Lee is the Associate Director of the Fred Rogers Institute at St Vincent College, Kate DiCamillo is a beloved children’s author, and Holly Weinkauf is the owner of the Red Balloon Children’s Bookshop in St. Paul. We spoke with them for a piece we did for Good Morning America that aired at the end of November. But we loved these conversations so much we wanted to bring them to our podcast audience, extended. There is some great advice here, and it’s worth hearing what these remarkable women have to say. Books mentioned in this week's episode: Mercy Watson is Missing by Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo The Mercy Watson Series by Kate DiCamillo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.4	Hello, listeners. It is the first Thursday of December, and I am Kate Gibson. Welcome to the bookcase.
0:42.0	And I'm Charlie Gibson, and I'm still here on the first Thursday in December. We've got our date straight.
0:47.4	And I want to explain a little bit because this podcast will be different than anything we've done in the past.
0:52.9	But when we started this,
1:00.1	more than a year and a half ago, we wanted to excite people, more people about reading and books that we have found and loved. But there was another thing that we talked a lot about,
1:05.2	which is getting kids to read. It is one of the sad realities of our life that you walk into a restaurant these
1:12.4	days and you'll see a family all four on their phones and kids are on their electronic devices
1:19.4	more and more. One of the statistics that I quote in this podcast is that studies have shown
1:25.1	that young people spend an average of 16 minutes a day,
1:29.3	reading for pleasure.
1:30.4	They spend more than six hours a day, six hours a day, on their digital devices.
1:36.7	So how can you get their eyes off the screens and onto a page?
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