Book Quote by Charlotte Mason

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

— Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

— Lloyd Alexander

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

— Arnold Lobel

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

— James S. Coleman

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that…

— Mac Barnett

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

— Enid Blyton

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Anonymous