The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with…

— Joan Aiken

Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how they're reading.

— Michael Rosen

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

— Adrienne Rich

“As he read he mouthed the words, the way a child reads silently.”

— Renee Carlino

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your…

— Anonymous

Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this…

— Derrick Jensen

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

— Neil Gaiman

“If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs…

— Martyn V. Halm

“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended…

— Katherine Applegate

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the…

— Astrid Lindgren

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they…

— Orson Scott Card

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

— Rohini Nilekani

“If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion…

— Tomi Ungerer