“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?” — Sherley Mondesir-Prescott Copy Share Image
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle. — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
“If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am honored to have the opportunity to inspire the young and the young at heart through our Picture Books and author… — Julie Freyermuth Copy Share Image
I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on! — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on… — Anthony Browne 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
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I photographer because I want a visual diary. Photography lets me capture the fleeting moments of daily life, the images would otherwise… — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
“Where do starfish come from?” asked Sam. “From the sky,” answered Stella. “Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the… — Marie-Louise Gay Copy Share Image
I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think… — David Small Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve 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
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
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
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 made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was… — Collier Schorr 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
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
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
“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
“Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.” — Emlyn Chand Copy Share Image
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place” — Alan Dapre Copy Share Image
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“Writing picture books is like playing Tetris with only Z-pieces.” — Colleen A.F. Venable Copy Share Image
