My son won't read for pleasure, how can I encourage him?

My eldest son is 9 and he's a lovely, lively and creative child but he just won't read and it's affecting his school work and becoming a vicious circle.For example, he likes to design and draw his own comic strips and share them with me. In last week's issue, he wrote some knock-knock jokes only he spelt the word as "nok nok" which illustrates the issue. He makes elementary mistakes in most sentences, usually spelling but sometimes grammar and punctuation too.It's my belief that if he read more books, he would absorb spelling and grammar and slowly he would improve in his own usage of both. At school he is not reported as being behind, which I find interesting in itself, but I would like some tips and suggestions for how I can get him to engage with reading at home.I've tried buying books he should find entertaining (football, sport, even young graphic novels), I've tried offering him 30 minutes reading time before bed but he just wants to go to sleep and not read. I worry that if I enforce reading (and how can you even do that), he will be even less likely to want to read.My youngest is 6, reads for pleasure, and is already ahead of my eldest in vocabulary and spelling.Maybe I am sensitive to this because I spent many of my younger years in the library reading everything, but I would just love him to engage with a book or story and read it properly, not skim read it.All advice welcomed. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2ua3FV8