Some books are more important than others...
If the subtle, subversive charms of The Knight and the Dragon aren’t enough to convince you that Tomie dePaola is one of our most important children’s book creators, I dare you to watch the video below, in which dePaola describes the importance of reading and reading aloud, and not fall in love with the guy.
My favorite part of the interview is where dePaola talks about being asked the question “Why do you think reading is important?” and how he prepared a very “intricate sentence” as his response. And his response was fantastic:
Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Isn’t that great?
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That’s what I tell the kids at my childrens’ school when I hand out books for RIF!
So cool.
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