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When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.'
- Jon Scieszka
#Afraid
#Father
#Look
#Mother
#See
I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.
- Jon Scieszka
#Book
#Get
#Just
#Like
#Trying
I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'
- Jon Scieszka
#Man
#Me
#Morning
#Remember
#Weird
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.
- Jon Scieszka
#More
#Page
#Praise
#Time
#Typing
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.
- Jon Scieszka
#Believe
#I Believe That
#Just
#Words
Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.
- Jon Scieszka
#Entertainment
#Media
#New
#Television
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
- Jon Scieszka
#Breakfast
#Day
#Funny
#Old
#Time
Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.
- Jon Scieszka
#Good
#Reading
#Role Model
#See
#Show
I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
- Jon Scieszka
#Experience
#House
#Reading
#Say
#Son
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.
- Jon Scieszka
#Dictionary
#Dream
#Lego
#Star
#Visual
Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.
- Jon Scieszka
#Down
#Much
#Sit
#Then
#Write
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
- Jon Scieszka
#Longest
#Say
#Taboo
#Time
#World
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.
- Jon Scieszka
#Change
#Finish
#Me
#School
#Time
'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.
- Jon Scieszka
#Cheating
#Looking
#No Words
#Now
#Words
I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.
- Jon Scieszka
#Birthday
#Celebrate
#Earthquake
#Lunch
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.
- Jon Scieszka
#Best
#Comic
#Humor
#Reach
#Science
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
- Jon Scieszka
#Action
#Focus
#Humor
#Pleasure
#Websites
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