Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

I think that any way that we are able to express ourselves as people is valuable and valid - whether it is through art…

— Aimee Lou Wood

“Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books are written…

— Lloyd Alexander

“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest…

— Lloyd Alexander

I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid than other…

— Richard Herring

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should…

— Amber Benson

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even…

— Rick Riordan

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

— N. V. M. Gonzalez

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were…

— Mizuki Nomura

There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.

— David Baddiel

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an…

— C. S. Lewis

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

— Beverly Cleary

Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

— Rumaan Alam

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

— Tracy K. Smith

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle