Why you should Read Reading provides cognitive, emotional, and physical benefits, including improved memory, critical thinking, and vocabulary. It also reduces stress, enhances empathy, and can help delay age-related cognitive decline like dementia. For...
Reading BooksBy Vivian G. Gouled I like to read all kinds of booksTo entertain myself,And so I’m glad when I can takeA book down from the shelf. I like the picture books of planes,Of flowers, birds, and shipsFrom which I can imagine thatI’m taking wonder trips. I like...
The Reading MotherBy Strickland Gillilan I had a mother who read to meSagas of pirates who scoured the sea,Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth,“Blackbirds” stowed in the hold beneath. I had a Mother who read me laysOf ancient and gallant and golden days;Stories...