Reported By: Hamna Shabahat

Grade VII-B, Shahwillayat Public School, Karachi, Pakistan.

As the topic tells us the importance of reading books is more than the importance of any other thing used to gain knowledge and wisdom. Books are the doors to the world of knowledge and success.

Books are the best teachers, friends and a good source of guidance. They are the building books of understanding and creativity. They enhance our personality and light up our future. They teach us thousands of new things, every time we read them; they increase our vocabulary and help us find the solution to millions of problems. Books provide us the literacy in all fields of education. The proverb “Readers are leaders” is the best example which clearly states the importance and significance of books in our life and how important they are for us if we want to become wise and worthy of leadership.

A book is the best gift which will stay with you in all stages of life and will keep guiding you on every step. Nowadays, books are not paid much attention may be, this is the reason why most people especially children are lacking knowledge. Books help you to learn a lot about the world around you. They tell you the facts which you’ve never heard before. The best thing about books is that the habit of reading them is very easy to develop; all you have to do is take a book in your hand and find yourself in the world of knowledge.

There is an enormous variety of books in this world written by different people. Books come in all shapes and sizes and on every topic you can think of. There are millions of books on adventure, comedy, fun, action and whatever else that comes into your mind when you want to choose a book to read.

Reading is the main source of intelligence. In short if you don’t read books, you will not gain knowledge and when you will not gain knowledge on time so you won’t be able to get anywhere else in life. Even in your school, you have your books for every single subject which actually means going to school is equal to reading books on every subject whole day. Books are the best way to spread knowledge. If a person is knowledgeable and he writes a book so ultimately he will be able to convey that knowledge to all those people who will read his book.

So if you want to be knowledgeable yourself, here’s what you’ve got to do:

Take a good book in your hands and enter the land of everlasting knowledge and creativity!