... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something. — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting 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
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a… — Tomie dePaola 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
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at… — Nicolas Cage 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
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books.… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
Carrying a small notebook with you always, in your pocket or purse, along with a reliable ballpoint pen will enable you to… — Lee Wyndham 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
I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“This week we'll be learning about key elements of high quality picture books. Using the award winner lists in our course materials,… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.” — Emlyn Chand Copy Share Image
