Books Quote by Jim Trelease

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead…

— John Green

In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted…

— Wole Soyinka

“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be…

— Lillian H. Smith

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and children’s fiction…

— Neil Gaiman

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even…

— Rick Riordan

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything…

— Pat Barker

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any…

— Lauren Tarshis

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the…

— Carl Hiaasen

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It…

— J. M. Coetzee

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have…

— Jean Fritz

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

— Andrew Bacevich

'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is…

— L.A. Weatherly