“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?” — Sherley Mondesir-Prescott Copy Share Image
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something. — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.” — Emlyn Chand Copy Share Image
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books.… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“Where do starfish come from?” asked Sam. “From the sky,” answered Stella. “Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the… — Marie-Louise Gay Copy Share Image
“I photographer because I want a visual diary. Photography lets me capture the fleeting moments of daily life, the images would otherwise… — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think… — David Small Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“I am honored to have the opportunity to inspire the young and the young at heart through our Picture Books and author… — Julie Freyermuth Copy Share Image
I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on! — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.” — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
