How does a parent raise a reader? Instructive ideas and provocative insights are presented in these articles. Also here is a checklist of terrible ideas for serious readers who like to laugh.

Unlucky Arithmetic: Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader (PDF) by Dean Schneider and Robin Smith
A tongue-in-cheek directive for discouraging young readers.

“Too Much of a Good Thing?” by Christine Heppermann (July/August 2000 Horn Book Magazine)
A mother considers her bookish toddler

Four writers on family reading (March/April 1997 Magazine):
“Luckily” by Peter Sis
“Have a carrot” by Cynthia Voight
“Again” by Kevin Henkes
“Look” by Lois Lowry

Have Book Bag, Will Travel: A Practical Guide to Reading Aloud by Mary M. Burns and Ann A. Flowers (March/April 1997 Magazine)
Step-by-step guidelines for how to read aloud and an annotated list of what to read.

“Tell the Lady What You Like”: Shopping for Children’s Books by Terri Schmitz (March/April 1997 Magazine)
An insider’s how-to on getting the most out of children’s book stores.

Rumpeta-ing through Reading: Picture Books for the Very Young by Martha Parravano (March/April 1997 Magazine)
One young child and her book-reviewer mother.

Reading Three Ways by Martha Parravano
Two children and their book-reviewer mother.

As Good as Reading? by Pamela Varley (May/June 2002 Magazine)
How audiobooks are speaking to young readers.