We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.
This is such a fantastic piece touching on so many things. Neil Gaiman effortlessly puts into words so many crucial and simple truths about libraries, reading for pleasure, and encouraging a love of literacy and imagination in children. Seriously, this man just gets it.













