著名历史学家麦考莱曾给一个小女孩写信说，如果有人要我当最伟大的国王，一辈子住在宫殿里，有花园、佳肴、美酒、大马车、华丽的衣服和成百的仆人，条件是不允许我读书，那么我决不当国王。我宁愿做一个穷人，住在藏书很多的阁楼里，也不愿当一个不能读书的国王。书，无论古今中外，无论大著小作，无论身价出处，从我们识字的时候开始，就一直陪伴着我们成长。从通俗易懂的小人书，到制作精美的漫画书，再到众人追捧的中外名著、畅销小说。我们的生活，常常因为一本好书，而受到启发，甚至改变。培根说，"读书在于塑造完全的人格。"是的，读书使人充实,读书使人明智、聪慧，读书使人高尚、文明，读书使人明理、善辩。杨绛先生说，一本好书，犹如一个精彩的世界。读书，犹如行走。读好书，可以让你足不出户，就可以感受到不同的生活和不同的世界。(Famous historian, Macaulay once writes a letter to a little girl. If someone asks me to be the greatest king who lives in the palace with garden, delicacies, good wine, coach-and-four, magnificent cloth and hundreds of servants for all lifetime, and the condition is that I cannot read, and then I am not willing to be the king. I would rather be a poor man living in an attic with many books than to be a king who cannot read. Book is always accompanying our growth, no matter it is at all times and in all over the world, no matter it is great works or ordinary one and no matter it has any kind of social status, from straightaway picture-story book to comic book with fine fabrication to popular masterwork at home and abroad and best-selling novel. Our life is often enlightened or even changed by a good book. Bacon puts it that the purpose of reading is to shape complete personality. Yes, reading enriches people, reading makes people sensible and intelligent, reading makes people noble and civilized, and reading makes people reasonable and be good at arguing. Mr. Yang Jiang says that a good book is like a wonderful world. Reading is like walking. Reading makes you feel different life and different world without leaving the door.)