Une jeune américaine défend les livres et la littérature.

Everyone needs to watch this 8-year-old's speech about books!

Although most kids would rather get their teeth yanked out with a plier one by one before cracking open a Boxcar Children, there's always a select number of little kids who really, really love books.

But however much you loved to read as a child, you probably didn’t love it as much 8-year-old Madison Reid of Cleveland, Ohio, who recently won the Internet by expressing her ardour for literature in an interview with WKYC Channel 3.

For the first minute of the interview, which was for the opening of a free library in her neighborhood, Madison sorta just seems like a hyperactive little kid trying to ham it up for the camera. It isn’t until the 1:40 mark that she launches into oratory mode, extolling the virtues of books like an evangelical preacher:

"The world needs books. What would the world be like without books? They fuel our mind like cars and gas. A car can’t go without gas. Our brains can’t go without books. The world needs books. We... need books. It would break my heart if one book was a lost. Just a page, just a word, just a letter was gone. I would be heartbroken. What would the world do without books? It would be empty. Like a bucket without water, like a brain without knowledge, like a file cabinet without papers. We... need books".

What would the world do without books? The world would be empty. It would be empty.

Audrey a écrit:Je ne suis absolument pas sensible à la rhétorique évangélique, effectivement... et ce discours, très américain dans sa forme, ne me touche pas, malgré mon accord sur le fond.

Je ne la trouve pas "mignonne"... elle n'a rien d'une enfant pour moi dans sa façon de parler.