How to Help Kids Love Reading with BYU Professor Paul Ricks

How do you inspire a love of reading in your children, siblings, nieces, nephews, or grandkids? With so many distractions, it can be difficult to make reading a priority. But Paul Ricks, BYU professor of children’s literature, says if we want children to value reading, we need to show them that we value it too.
In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks with Ricks about how to make reading an interactive and enriching experience for both children and adults. Ricks also gives several book recommendations, listed below:
I Want My Hat Back (www.barnesandn...) by Jon Klaussen, I Talk Like a Like a River (www.jordanscot...) by Jordan Scott, The Arrival (www.shauntan.n...) by Shaun Tan, The Mona Lisa Vanishes (www.penguinran...) by Nicholas Day, Spiders (shop.scholasti...) by Nic Bishop, Seen and Unseen (www.elizabethp...) by Elizabeth Partridge, Ain’t Burned All the Bright (www.barnesandn...) by Jason Reynolds, and Big (www.barnesandn...) by Vashti Harrison.
This episode is based on an upcoming article about about encouraging kids to love reading that will appear in the winter 2025 issue of Y Magazine.
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