I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“Understanding dog-psychology is simple and there are only a few essential (yet very simple) things that you need to understand – but… — Yohai Reuben Copy Share Image
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
“The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for… — Esphyr Slobodkina Copy Share Image
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
“Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their… — Christian Robinson Copy Share Image
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern.… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
“They must be looking everywhere for you," said Tawny, stretching out her wings to their full span - which was very far… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh,… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books… — Laurie Keller Copy Share Image
I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books.… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I love writing picture books because they are very child-centered and family-focused. The idea of creating a story within 2-5 typewritten pages… — Jerdine Nolen Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
