I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference. — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Although I started writing children's books before I had kids, my approach changed after I became a dad. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said. ‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids.… — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers.… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Magic happens when the wand of language strikes a stone and makes it melt, touches a spindle and turns it into gold,… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful… — Tony Millionaire Copy Share Image
“In 1970, Alix Kates Shulman, a wife, mother, and writer who had joined the Women's Liberation Movement in New York, wrote a… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
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