“Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free.” — C.J. Milbrandt Copy Share Image
“Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you… — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
“Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.” — Janaki Sooriyarachchi Copy Share Image
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life comes easy and without a price. The trick is learning to never give up.” — Michael Alexander Beas Copy Share Image
“Protect our children from failure, is impossible; Teach them how to get up can make the difference” — Mayra A. Diaz Copy Share Image
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
“As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Themes that are "too large for adult fiction can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book" - Philip Pullman (Hunt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes,… — Amber Benson 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
“In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for… — Betsy Hearne Copy Share Image
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
“Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule,… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it's impossible to make… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor's mind, and the things that had probably really happened were… — Jane Langton Copy Share Image
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!” — Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor Copy Share Image
“Annie has brown hair and brown eyes. And she smiles a lot. I would like Annie if I liked girls.” — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen. — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it. — Mabel Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh” — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.” — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Copy Share Image
“For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." -… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.” — Andrea Koehle Jones Copy Share Image
“One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is… — Annie Bryant Copy Share Image
“The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an… — Neale Osborne Copy Share Image
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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