Alive Quote by Morris Gleitzman

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest…

— P. L. Travers

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when…

— Michael Morpurgo

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

— Beatrix Potter

“A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot more invaluable…

— Jyoti Arora

“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

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

— Esther Meynell

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A…

— John Bradshaw

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer