I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books.… — Henning Mankell 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 have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when… — Chrissy Costanza Copy Share Image
“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“I’m not putting my faith or life in anyone’s hands. All that ever got me was screwed, and my ass is currently… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of… — Allen Covert 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
“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black 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
We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
