Age Quote by Anthony Browne Download Open image “Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.” — Anthony Browne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Behinds Book Books Grows Left Left behind Picture books
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising… — Anthony Browne 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 being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to… — Anthony Browne 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 in the… — Rebecca Serle 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
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to… — Anthony Browne 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 books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by… — Anthony Browne Copy Share
“It makes me sad that grown up books don’t have pictures in them. You’re brought up with them when you’re younger, and then suddenly… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something. — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image