Art Quote by Rebecca Serle

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so.…

— David Walliams

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

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

“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book…

— Laura Miller

Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book -…

— John Boyne

“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole literary mainstream;…

— Lloyd Alexander

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be…

— Lillian H. Smith

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for…

— Michael Morpurgo

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell…

— Maurice Sendak