“TEENAGERS from the Institute of Children's Literature. After she graduated college, Lacy got serious about her writing career and joined the American… — Lacy Yager Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness… — David Small Copy Share Image
[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi." "You've seen Star Wars?" "Seen it and denounced it." "You've denounced… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson 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
Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
“Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.” — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
“Lewis was unique in the academia of his day for championing (along with his good friend, J.R.R. Tolkien) children’s literature and fantasy… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“The thing that is maybe the real difference, the fundamental difference, is that in adult literature you can have a literature of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“The detective embodies, even more than the romantic drifter, rationality; this intriguing and apparent dichotomy pertains to a significant part of Bengali… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
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