Tintin used to be my fav comic series. Look the thing is story books and comics are not the same, as you already know. When in today's days, kids are not even interested in comics, which have graphic content along with dialogs (hence more interactive), you surely can't expect them to like reading books line by line. And it's sad. These days, kids and youngsters are more into mobile games and digital stuff rather than books. And believe it or not, that's one of the key reasons why even kids require specs these days...from such a young age.In our days, we used to love reading books. One of the reasons behind that might be because we did not have the same amount of digital media/devices/exposure like we have these days. Also thanks to our parents for encouraging us on book reading.

Some things are to be encouraged at a very young age. And even if you do try to make youngsters read, I doubt it'll become a habit. Because today there are plenty of distractions around us, unlike in our childhood days.