Bookworm / Leseratte

“You simply never know what a child is going to find in a book… what tiny, throwaway line might be the spark that lights the fuse that sets off an explosion in understanding, whose force echoes down years. And it enables me to keep, at bottom, the faith that children should be allowed to read anything at any time. They will take out of it whatever they are ready for. And just occasionally, it will ready them for something else”.

(Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading).