Interactions with books hane long been recognised as perhaps the most powerful means of influencing children to become readers. The first part of the paper demonstrates the need to provide the enabling environment for making reading a more pleasurable experience. The second part analyses beginning reading stories of some Polytech-nic, Calabar students. The third part advo-cates the adoption on a wider scale by teachers of some methods that have been used by Nigerian teachers to foster a love for reading among children. he words of religious poets Harvey and Harvey (1984) capture the profundity of the dimensions of development open to a people through the investments they make in the lives of their young ones.