The story everyone repeats is that children today will not read. Screens won. Attention is gone. Books lost.
We do not see that. What we see, week after week, is that children read almost anything once it is genuinely within reach.
Reach is the real variable
Buying every book a curious child wants is expensive, and most families cannot do it, which is reasonable. A good bookshop is not around every corner. School libraries are stretched. So the book a child would have loved often simply never reaches them.
That is not a reading problem. That is an access problem, and access problems have solutions.
Our library side exists for exactly this. Curated physical books arrive at home for around 80 rupees a book, the child reads, then swaps for the next. No buying every title. No guessing in a shop. Just a steady supply of books that match the reader.
What changes when access changes
Give a child a stream of books they actually chose, and the so-called attention problem tends to quietly disappear. They go deep. They reread. They start asking for a specific author.
We have watched screen-tired children come back to paper, not because anyone lectured them, but because the right book was sitting there when they were bored.
Why this matters for writing too
Access feeds the whole arc. A child who can reach books becomes a child who reads widely, who then, sometimes, becomes a child who writes. Every young author we have published started as a reader with access to enough stories to want to add one of their own.
If you have decided your child does not like reading, it is worth asking a different question first. Not whether they like books, but whether the right ones have ever actually reached them.