Answers Quote by Libby Copeland

The parenting books didn't work for me; I got my parenting lessons from everything but the books! And it was about figuring things out.…

— Sonali Bendre

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

— Claire Messud

“Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm.”

— Katey Sagal

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

— Bruce Feiler

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your…

— Anonymous

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I…

— J. K. Rowling

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”

— Frank Serafini

“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just…

— Pamela Paul

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

— Anne Lamott

Never give a child a book you can't read!

— David Nasir

“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do remember with…

— J.K. Rowling