How to get your kids to love reading?

0:01 [Music] I'm emails asking me that how do you get your kids how do you get them to come books and I think the first thing they need to do is stop sensing your urgency about it they have to be because they want to read and they have to not get the sense everything else who wants them to so of course I will say this in the confessional space definitely we all want our kids and I think if you grew up

0:29 not really are considerably overage and so they're much poorer off then kids ready so it would really frightened leave my kids won't really having said that there are so many distractions from the ipad in the ipod on the telephone we are also far more distracted as parents compared to how our parents were right so in the world we live in there isn't that much space for silence for solitude for boredom in true so you know we don't

0:55 realize what are you two just like park them off somewhere so i definitely worries me that my kids also tend to seek out an electronic gadget over a book very often no but i think well if we get into that is a separate question well tell you one of the things for you to park them away from those caches and other words you know make them realize that books are in fact quite amazing relation and on a fantastic way to spend

1:17 your time right okay file now and file has just focus lee launched her last book which is full which is called 48 hi which is obviously not the last class but our latest book the more horrid version comes out next term okay well take us through the horrid I and what's it all about so basically I always wanted to write a horrid book so that's one more confession I just was very interested in the combination of

1:42 horridness and humor that I find in some of my favorite authors like again I'm saying Roald Dahl so I like the fact that somebody can make you squirm and somebody can make you go oh my god that's really itchy but make you laugh at the same time [Music] you [Music]