Books Quote by Rumaan Alam

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

Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.

— Anonymous

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at…

— Jan Brett

The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten, interest and…

— Michael Rosen

“People write books for children and other people write about the books written for children but I don't think it's for the children at…

— Russell Hoban

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the…

— Alison Lurie

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

— Walter Dean Myers

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

— Lewis Buzbee

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

— Michael Morpurgo

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

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

— Joseph Joubert

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

— Peter H. Reynolds