“'So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Then fill the shelves with lots of books, Ignoring all the dirty looks,

The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,

And children hitting you with sticks --

Fear not, because we promise you

That, in about a week or two

Of having nothing else to do,

They'll now begin to feel the need

Of having something good to read.'”  

--Oompa Loompa song in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

author of the following titles (and many more)