I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part…

“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

“Good things don’t come easy and anything free you have got to ponder the tiny literature under the big words.”

— Harken Headers

“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

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

— Gretchen Rubin

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

— Lloyd Alexander

The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where…

— Karen Hesse

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'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so…

— Daniel Handler