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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
— Beverly Cleary
I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
— Mariella Frostrup
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
— Barack Obama
My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
— Patricia Polacco
By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
— Kate Forsyth
You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.
— Dr. Seuss
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
— Langston Hughes
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go to
the same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. — Magda M. Olchawska
the same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. — Magda M. Olchawska
Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.
— Louise Fitzhugh
People who prefer e-books ... think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
— Joe Queenan
When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place
— Alan Dapre
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.
— Ed Bradley
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
— Mark Haddon
As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.
— Carlo Collodi
There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.
— R.S. Vern
Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.
— Martha Hamlett
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
— Jane Yolen
Books like a box of chocolates; each one sweet and unique!
— Pamela Tomlin
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
— Eleanor Catton
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
— Sharon M. Draper
Basset Hounds never get scared. We're fearless, resolute and know how to season a good lamb chop.
— Elias Zapple
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
— Penn Jillette
Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.
— Amelia Gray
Some people have children. I have books. Much more interesting and they never ask me for money.
— J. Lincoln Fenn
Gusty McCabe, tha's m' name and tellin' stories, tha's m' game, If they all ain't true I ain't t' blame, I'll tell 'em all just the same.
— Gusty McCabe
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
When I was a grown-up I was just like you, and I did all the things you do. But it was hard to be that tall, so I decided I'd be small.
— Nichole Hansen
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.
— Peter Jackson
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.
— Arthur Ransome
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
— Esther Meynell
A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.
— Kimberley Payne
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
— Charlotte Mason
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
— Enid Blyton
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
— Malorie Blackman
Be quick to say, "Sorry," be quick to forgive, and you'll always have friends, as long as you live.
— James L. Papandrea
So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.
— Alison Cooklin
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.
— Pat Frank
There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.
— Jo Walton
I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.
— Allen Covert
We'll make the trip a race, and I'll get there first.
— C.J. Milbrandt
Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.
— Peggy A. Borel
What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.
— Sarah Jio
There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children
— Tiziano Terzani
Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
— Jennifer McMahon
Sometimes we just need a little break from this thing we call 'life', and step into the cartoon life for a moment
— Andrea L'Artiste
You know you've reached rock bottom when you're standing on the beach, looking to the horizon, and you don't notice you'r ankle-deep in dead fish.
— Peter Lerangis
Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.
— Peter H. Reynolds
People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
— L. Frank Baum
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.
— Jane Goodall
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.
— John Alfred Langford
I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.
— Sima Mittal
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.
— LaDene Mayville
I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.
— Marilynn Halas
A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.
— Soraya Diase Coffelt
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
— Arnold Lobel
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
— Mark Haddon
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
— Michel De Montaigne
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
— Ralph Nader
I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.
— Stanley Williams
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
— C.S. Lewis
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
— Virginia Hamilton
Always dream big and dare to believe!
— Melinda Rabin
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged.
— Andrea L'Artiste
Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
— Victoria Osteen
Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What
— Alan Bradley
For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?
— Joan W. Blos
I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
— Malorie Blackman
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
— James Patterson
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
— Mark Haddon
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2 ... priceless.
— Salman Rushdie
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
— Susan Straight
Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy. — Melinda K. Trotter
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy. — Melinda K. Trotter
I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
— Peter Lerangis
Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you.
— C.J. Milbrandt
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
— Paul Kropp
When I look at you and you look at me,
I wonder what wonderful things you will be. — Emily Winfield Martin
I wonder what wonderful things you will be. — Emily Winfield Martin
That weekend my people brought home
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and annoying
that I did not like him one bit. — Melinda K. Trotter
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and annoying
that I did not like him one bit. — Melinda K. Trotter
Every day, our kids are faced with obstacles in their way. As parents we need to teach them how to get up and Keep Going.
— Mayra A. Diaz
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
— Leo Buscaglia
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
— Donna M. McDine