Kids and Reading

Stats from the Scholastic/Yankelovich 2008 Kids and Family Reading Report:

• 90% of children ages 5–17 believe they "need to be a strong reader to get into a good college"
• 80% of children ages 5–8 believe reading for fun is "extremely or very important"
• 56% of children ages 15–17 believe reading for fun is "extremely or very important"
• 15 years is the age after which children are more likely to have read a magazine than a book in the past week
• 29% of children who are "high frequency" Internet users are also "high frequency" pleasure readers
• 8 years is the age after which more children go online daily than read daily

For more, go to Publishers Weekly.