About Quote by Beverly Cleary

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

— Maurice Sendak

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything…

— Pat Barker

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

— Jason Reynolds

The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the…

— J. Michael Straczynski

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not…

— Peter Straub

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

— Sudha Murty

“A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is that they…

— Daniel Handler

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

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who…

— Joyce Maynard

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

— Beverly Cleary

I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.

— Jenny Han

“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers”

— Karin Slaughter