I love reading, Knowledge is power!
Reading is so wonderful! I love to read to my kids. One of our favorite books is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by author L. Frank Baum  and published in 1900!
What can you tell me about the history of reading?
Reading has been occuring in so many years in so many different cultures. There are multiple interpretations of it because of that. 
Interesting, what else do you know about reading?
use a variety of reading strategies to decode (to translate symbols into sounds or visual representations of speech) and comprehension. Readers may use context clues to identify the meaning of unknown words. Readers integrate the words they have read into their existing framework of knowledge or schema.
Other types of reading are not speech based writing systems, such as music notation or pictograms. The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations or tactile signals (as in the case of Braille).
Where is the yellow brick road when you need it' or 'I see the yellow Brick road' has transiently passed into and out of the vernacular, the 'yellow brick road' being analogous to 'light at the end of the tunnel', the phrase can be used optimistically, sarcastically, or cynically.
See also.
- Political interpretations of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
Further reading.
- Dighe, Ranjit S. ed. "The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank