I don't want to read that!

Have you ever been looking through a newspaper and you just throw a page on the ground because there isn't any good pictures? Or the amount of very small words overwhelms you? Or you just don't want to read about how all these people died? Or who got arrested that week? Have you ever been "window shopping" books at the grocery store because you don't want to buy them and you seem to glance past certain ones saying "no, not pretty enough, no, too futuristic, ewww vampires?"

Well, these are some things that go through my head when I'm faced with reading when I haven't picked out my own books.  Kids are the exact same way, if they don't want to read something because it doesn't look intriguing, there are too many small words for them, or it has no interest to them; then they are showing signs of being non-readers. Maybe we never grow out of it, or we just have more choices when we're older, but we have to be aware of why a child doesn't want to read a book before making them read it