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Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

— Dr. Seuss

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read…

— Barbara Cooney

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at…

— Jan Brett

Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.

— Anonymous

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult…

— Michael Rosen

“People write books for children and other people write about the books written for children but I don't think it's for the children at…

— Russell Hoban

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

— Rick Riordan

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way…

— John Taylor Gatto

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

— Michael Morpurgo

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so.…

— David Walliams

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they…

— Orson Scott Card