Affection Quote by Michel de Montaigne

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult…

— Michael Rosen

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history,…

— Edith Schaeffer

We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot of children's…

— Tom Fletcher

“The most important thing, I believe, about books for babies and very young children is that they are shared between the child and a…

— Jan Ormerod

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

— Barack Obama

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

— Walter Dean Myers

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same…

— Mark Haddon

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling abstract ideas,…

— Michael Rosen

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they…

— Orson Scott Card

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to…

— Orville Prescott

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

— Maurice Sendak