In addition to providing the girls with American textbooks, Mrs. Pao also took them to the US to buy books, letting them choose whatever interested them. Mrs. Pao says, "They'd only read what they chose for themselves," so they grew up with stories, novels and magazines.
念美國教科書之外，每年鮑媽媽還會帶兩姊妹到美國買書，由姊妹們選擇自己有興趣的讀物，「讓她們自己選才會讀」，鮑媽媽說，故事、小說、雜誌等都曾伴隨姊妹長大。