Twenty Minutes a Day By Richard Peck

Twenty Minutes a Day
By Richard Peck 

• Read to your children
• Twenty minutes a day,
• you have the time,
• And so do they. 
• Read while the laundry is in the machine,
• Read while the dinner cooks,
• Tuck a child in the crook of your arm,
• And reach for the library books. 
• Hide the remote,
• Let the computer games cool,
• For one day your children will be off to school,
• Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice,
• Let them hear their first tales.
• In the sound of your voice. 
• Read in the morning,
• Read over noon,
• Read by the light of Goodnight Moon.
• Turn the pages together,
• sitting close as you'll fit,
• Till a small voice beside you says,
• Hey don't quit.                                                                                                                                 Copyright @Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers