The Importance of Reading
SpongeBob/MagicMike tutors slow and reluctant readers.
Children are excited to read when SpongeBob says it's fun to read.


I taught myself how to read before I started kindergarten. I had a kid's blackboard with the alphabet and easy words with pictures on a scroll and my friends and myself played school when we were 3 and 4 years old. I looked at the newspaper when I was 4 and 5 years old and tried to read. I looked up words I didn't know in the dictionary. My first grade teacher was amazed to see I had a third grade reading level. In third grade I had a sixth grade reading level. By the time I was a teenager I had taught myself and mastered the hardest magic, sleight of hand, and had read almost all the classics of Literature.

Below are links to reading literature, reading the Bible online, and why reading is important. Bookmark the page.
Come here with your kids. Pick a story, read it to them. Everyone needs to read. These are the best authors and stories in Literature.
Read them online, here. Happy reading, Magic Mike.
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SpongeBob/MagicMike excites kids to read
Read these great writings online. I recommend these theology and philosophy classics to check out. Let me know if you find a better link.
Read online The Bible - Old & New Testament.
Read online The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu.
The Analects of Confucius on Conduct.
Read online Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path Suffering and Antidote - Buddha.
Perfect Wisdom Sutra - Buddha on Emptiness.
Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson - Gurdjieff.
Read the Works of William Shakespeare online.
Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.
Read online Sir Frances Bacon on Methodology.
Read online Rene DesCartes on Existence.
Read online Dante - The Divine Comedy.
The Urantia Book - Outer Space Bible.

Read these classics of literature online.
Anderson, Hans Christian The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, Little Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox, Princess and the Pea, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
Austen, Jane Emma, Sense and Sensibility.
Carroll, Lewis ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Bierce, Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice TARZAN .
Dickinson, Emily POEMS Because I Could Not Stop for Death.
Doyle, Arthur Conan SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Kipling, Rudyard GUNGA DIN, KIM, THE JUNGLE BOOK, HOW THE CAMEL GOT IT'S HUMP.
Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Oliver Twist.
Irving, Washington - LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND RIP VAN WINKLE.
Frost, Robert The Road Not Taken, AND, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.
London, Jack CALL OF THE WILD.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth HIAWATHA AND THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE.
Orwell, George ANIMAL FARM AND 1984.
Poe, Edgar Allan THE RAVEN, PIT AND THE PENDULUM, OBLONG BOX, FALL OF HOUSE OF USHER.
Shakespeare, William READ MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM!!! AND SEE THE MOVIE!!!!!!
Stoker, Bram DRACULA
Stevenson, Robert Louis TREASURE ISLAND AND KIDNAPPED
Swift, Jonathan GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Twain, Mark CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING AUTHOR'S COURT, TOM SAWYER/HUCK FINN .
Verne, Jules 20 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA.
Wells, H.G. TIME MACHINE, THE INVISIBLE MAN, AND WAR OF THE WORLDS.

Here is the complete list of authors, biographies, and their works to read online.

Alcott, Louisa May Alighieri, Dante
Andersen, Hans Christian Austen, Jane
Barrie, James M. Bierce, Ambrose
Blake, William Bronte, Emily
Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Anne
Bulfinch, Thomas Burnett, Francis Hodgson
Burroughs, Edgar Rice Byron, Lord George Gordon
Carroll, Lewis Cervantes, Miguel de
Chaucer, Geoffrey Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore Crane, Stephen
Darwin, Charles Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles Dickinson, Emily
Donne, John Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Doyle, Arthur Conan Dumas, Alexandre
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Forster, E.M. Frost, Robert
Grahame, Kenneth Hardy, Thomas
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hesse, Hermann
Homer, Hugo, Victor
Huxley, Aldous Irving, Washington
Joyce, James Keats, John
Kipling, Rudyard Lamb, Charles
Lawrence, D.H. Leroux, Gaston
London, Jack Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Maupassant, Guy de Melville, Herman
Milton, John Montgomery, Lucy Maud
More, Thomas Orwell, George
Poe, Edgar Allan Scott, Sir Walter
Shakespeare, William Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Sinclair, Upton
Sophocles, Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Swift, Jonathan Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Thoreau, Henry David Tolstoy, Leo
Twain, Mark Tzu, Sun
Verne, Jules Virgil,
Wells, H.G. Wharton, Edith
Wilde, Oscar Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, William Yeats, William Butler
I found a site that has famous authors and the literature they wrote, on-line to read. These are the ones I thought you might like to read. Many adults have never read these and they have missed out on word treasures that I hope you will find enriching. Many of these are part of school classes and some are not. These are worth reading no matter what age you are. I picked the ones that weren't TOO serious, with famous stories you may have heard of, or seen as movies on TV.

The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere
is very good. And. you will be amazed how many titles you know that are from Rudyard Kipling. The purple list on the left are famous authors thought by MOST people to be the world's best stories. I found these to be the most fun too, which is why I chose to pick them for you.

Most people feel that reading these books gave them insights to lives, emotions, worlds, and experiences they are very glad they visited, that they probably would never experience themselves, without the magic the author created. Reading these stories made me feel like I went on trips and journeys I could never experience on my own, but by reading carefully, feeling the magic the author created, I made those journeys.

I particularly like Robert Frost, who was our National Poet Laureate.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The day I learned magic is also the day I was given a Bible to read, by a stranger, who was waiting with me for the library to open. As I said, I was six years old. It was Summer, a sunny Saturday morning, and my parents were still asleep. The evening before I had seen "Lost Horizon" on the Late Show (I often crept down stairs at 1:00am and watched TV after my parents had gone to bed.) I had wanted to learn how to fly and how to turn invisible and I realized that the Ancient Knowledge was probably at the Library in books.

My mother had taken me to the Library the week before and gotten me a Library card. So, this Saturday morning whiile my parents slept I took a bus to the Library by myself. A man was waiting with me for it to open. When he asked why I was there, and I told him, he pulled a small black Bible out of his pocket, gave it to me, and said, "You should read this too." And I did. No matter what one thinks about it's validity, you have to admit is is an amazing story, and one of the oldest. That makes it worth reading in itself.
It is the history of the past 5000 years.

I have read about all the religions and philosophies. I recommend you do that too, and read the classics. By the time I was 14 years old I had read Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and others. I took out 6 to 10 books a month from the library for many years. I took buses to libraries all over Philadelphia when I was young. All you have to do is click on an author and read their best, right here.

All the libraries in Seattle have scheduled me doing magic, and I have performed at most of the schools in the Seattle/Puget Sound area of Washington state in the elementary, middle, high schools, and colleges. I have also performed for many child care centers. I also give employees of many companies a motivational talk called "How To Accomplish The Impossible." All of this centers around the use of one's mind.







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