Bit Quote by Robert Ingpen

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for…

— Maud Lindsay

“A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.”

— K. Lamb

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

— Anonymous

It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding…

— Rachel Cusk

“A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories…

— John S. Savage

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the…

— Katherine Paterson

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are…

— Oliver Sacks

“[This story] would seem to be for children, but I'm not fussy who reads it.”

— E. B. White

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about…

— Paul O. Zelinsky

So many things that you can ask children hopefully pique their interest and they can design and think for themselves. Having children draw and…

— Julie Andrews