Not surprising …

… California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia Brings Literary Star Power to CSUN | CSUN Today.  (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

“The early experience of reading opens up something in an individual’s mind and imagination, which makes him or her begin to lead their lives differently,” Gioia said. “Children, from the very earliest age, need to read stories. They need to know how many possible outcomes any story has, how many characters, how many plot reversals. If you don’t train the imagination early on, it tends to be locked into a very narrow set of possibilities."