Best way Quote by Jeff Kinney

Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to…

— Sid Fleischman

Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when I got…

— Dav Pilkey

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books…

— Michael Ian Black

I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you…

— James Dashner

I think if you can show a kid that reading can actually be fun, it can make you laugh, inspire imagination - that can…

— Dav Pilkey

“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier and deeper…

— Raven Black

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader,…

— Jeff Kinney

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature…

— J. K. Rowling

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the…

— Brian P. Cleary

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

— Charles Clarke