“Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding – or wanting to admit – that what a child learns first isn’t the act but the gestures that accompany the act. And although it may also help them learn, this ostentatious show of reading is primarily intended to reassure them and please us.”

“Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding – or wanting to admit – that what a child learns first isn’t the act but the gestures that accompany the act. And although it may also help them learn, this ostentatious show of reading is primarily intended to reassure them and please us.”

— Daniel Pennac