Children Quote by Sylvain Reynard

“Afterward I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little girl, who…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

“My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own…

— Diane Setterfield

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without…

— Richard Whately

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Children give terrible gifts because they are poor.”

— Rob Delaney

“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper cut.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.”

— Jarod Kintz

“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would…

— Dave Eggers

“Giving a child a book is better than any toy you can buy, even a fidget spinner.”

— Sonia Cunningham Leverette