Awards Quote by Michael Rosen

The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, ..…

— Laura Bush

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and…

— Stephen Fry

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

— Judy Blume

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of…

— Yann Martel

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books,

— Maurice Sendak

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

— Beverly Cleary

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

— Adriana Trigiani

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's…

— Ann Packer

I grew up in the seaside town of Porthcawl in South Wales, the third eldest of four children. We weren't overly bookworm-ish but I…

— Ruth Jones

The Library is a wilderness of books.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

— Haruki Murakami