Celebrated and award winning author, Walter Dean Myers was sworn in on January 10, 2012, as the Ambassador for Young People's Literature. His theme for his term as ambassador for the next two years is "Reading is Not Optional." He states that "you can't do well in life if you don't read well."
He wants to get parents to read to very, very young kids, 3 and 4 months old and he thinks it will change the country.
Listen to the interview on NPR.
It doesn't matter what you read, just read! Every day.
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