“I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan!” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young… — Sara Rich Copy Share Image
A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant! — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.” — Andrea Koehle Jones Copy Share Image
a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
“One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is… — Annie Bryant Copy Share Image
“It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh” — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“In the cellar that was a window to another world, they sat and watched Nick's mum, mountainous and grey, mossey - eared… — A. F Harold Copy Share Image
“Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved.… — James McAvoy 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
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Themes that are "too large for adult fiction can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book" - Philip Pullman (Hunt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander 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
“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger,… — Maurice Sendak 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
The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
“I was astonished at how wonderful these books were; and even though I was occasionally discomforted when someone, having asked me what… — Jonathan Cott Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.” — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Copy Share Image
“For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." -… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen” — Wendy Milton Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an… — Neale Osborne Copy Share Image
“None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.” — Ethel Turner Copy Share Image
“We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.” — Jessica Marie Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life comes easy and without a price. The trick is learning to never give up.” — Michael Alexander Beas Copy Share Image
“Protect our children from failure, is impossible; Teach them how to get up can make the difference” — Mayra A. Diaz Copy Share Image
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!” — Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor Copy Share Image