A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination. As today the sky 70 degrees above zero with lines falling The way September… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a… — Martha Parravano Copy Share Image
The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
“You can tie them, Yes you can. Just take those laces in both hands. Loop and swoop and tie them off. You… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern.… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
“It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything!” — Tamar Bobokhidze Copy Share Image
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“As he lifted the leather-bound cover, the musty smell of paper rose up. He turned the first mottled leaf and looked down… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Teach a child a useful skill. Build confidence and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime.” — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
“We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too!” — Tamar Bobokhidze Copy Share Image
“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
