When we were kids, I “inoculated” my sister with the love of reading by giving her the set of “Little House” books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I never needed to be coerced to read. I think I was born knowing how to read, and it’s a necessity of life to me, like breathing.
I gave a set of those books to my daughter when she was about ten, for the same reason, to get her reading.
The Daughter came to me not too long ago to say it was about time to give that set of books to COTU#1.
~VOW
(To the uninformed: COTU stands for “Center of the Universe.” That’s our shorthand for a grandchild. We have three, COTU#1, COTU#2, COTU #3)