Attention Quote by E. B. White

Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up,…

— Rebecca Serle

I've always felt for little children because I love the way they fashion sentences - their vocabulary is limited. They have to navigate around…

— Thao Nguyen

The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're…

— Laurence Fishburne

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word…

— Maria Montessori

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

— David Almond

It's an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words.

— Mark Rylance

“Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have devoted a…

— Jo Walton

Most people understand that the more words children are exposed to, the stronger their vocabularies will be. But fewer people are aware that the…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

“The longer children live on the street, the more they realize the meaninglessness of words. They don't say things such as 'Thank you' and…

— Chi Huang

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the…

— Anonymous

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than…

— John Edgar Wideman