Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings',… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
“We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining,"… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
I wanted to write children's books. I felt that the best way to understand how a child thinks in their mind is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake.… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
“Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with only 236 different words, so his editor bet him he couldn’t write a… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Some of the best portrayals I’ve seen of the eternal Heaven are in children’s books. Why? Because they depict earthly scenes, with… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children’s books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic.… — Abbie Schiller Copy Share Image
Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“These words on the screen represented her latest project, an attempt at a series of commercial, discreetly feminist crime novels. She had… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I seem to grow more acutely conscious of the swift passage of time as I grow older. When I was small, days… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“To do exciting, empowering research and leave it in academic journals and university libraries is like manufacturing unaffordable medicines for deadly diseases.… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Some thirty miles east of the statue, with much less fanfare, another monument was nearing completion. At Cold Spring Harbor on Long… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book.… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
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“There’s something nice about out-and-out children’s books with no sex and a happy ending—Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
“I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
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He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya 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
Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
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