There you go then, here’s example 195,734,789,349,249 of a child falling in love with books – by way of their parents.
It’s simple, really.
If you want to raise literary kids…
Do literary things.
My mother, afraid the impoverished school system would hobble her children, acquired, from somewhere, a “college prep reading list.” Trained in India to be a physiologist, married at twenty-three, and preoccupied with raising three kids in a country that was not her own, she had not read many of the books on the list herself. But she would make sure her kids were not deprived. She made me read 1984 when I was ten years old; I was scandalized by the sex, but it also instilled in me a deep love of, and care for, language.
-Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (Amazon)
