Books Quote by N. V. M. Gonzalez

“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature…

— Lloyd Alexander

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

— Jasper Fforde

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

— Douglas Gresham

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom…

— Anton Chekhov

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

— Anthony Horowitz

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young…

— Gabrielle Zevin

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she…

— Jenna Bush

“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest…

— Lloyd Alexander

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so…

— Daniel Handler

The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where…

— Karen Hesse

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should…

— Amber Benson