Curled Up With a Few Good Books

In 2007 the National Endowment for the Arts released their findings of a study they conducted called To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence. The results had some pretty depressing statistics concerning teens. Here is a small sampling of their findings:

Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.
Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.1
On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading.

See what I mean--pretty depressing. That's why, when I came across the young girl pictured to your left with a large stack of books to keep her busy during school vacation, I just had to take a picture. I wish that I saw more of this, but I will take what I can get!