Jon Scieszka's Profile
Brief about Jon Scieszka: By info that we know Jon Scieszka was born at 1954-09-08. And also Jon Scieszka is American Author.
Some Jon Scieszka's quotes. Goto "Jon Scieszka's quotation" section for more.When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
Tags: Funny, Learned, TimeBe a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.
Tags: Good, Kids, ShowFor the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
Tags: Longest, Taboo, TimeI believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.
Tags: Blogs, Rhyming, WordsI'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.
Tags: Book, Kids, TryingJeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.
Tags: Books, Kids, ReadingThere are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.
Tags: Thought, Time, WhileWe're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
Tags: Including, Literacy, NarrowAvoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.
Tags: Attention, Kids, MayExpand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
Tags: Action, Focus, HumorI always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.
Tags: Book, School, TrueI am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.
Tags: Good, Great, TimeI like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.
Tags: Funny, Mom, TimeI remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'
Tags: Morning, Saying, ThoughtI taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.
Tags: Change, School, TimeI think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
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