Book Quote by E. L. Doctorow

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always…

— Lauren Myracle

“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 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

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

— Vissarion Belinsky

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age,…

— Lois Lowry

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt…

— John Rhys-Davies

“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books,…

— Betsy Hearne

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

— Diana Gabaldon

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters…

— Ravi Subramanian

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are…

— E. M. Delafield