Child development Quote by Mem Fox

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to…

— Robert Pinsky

Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time Because once…

— Taylor Mali

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys,…

— Katherine Catmull

They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their…

— Kool Keith

Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their…

— Patricia C. Wrede

“Ultimately we want the children to catch their growing intensity themselves, to rely on their inner control rather than our control. By giving them…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

It's very useful to be able to look inside the mind of a seven-year-old when you're writing for youngsters that age.

— Tom Fletcher

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

— Gabriella Wilson

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to…

— Magda Gerber

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with…

— Joan Aiken

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There…

— Laura E. Richards