Answers Quote by Ernest L. Boyer

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think…

— Jeanette Winterson

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them.

— Sean Doolittle

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 think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

— Rick Riordan

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good.…

— Helen Dunmore

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find…

— John Steinbeck

Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the public that…

— Michael Rosen

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and…

— Mem Fox

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

— James Patterson

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous