Children Book Quotes

Children Book Quote of the day

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

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

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

I know why the caged bird sings.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Life Will Never Be The Same Because There Had Never Been Anyone Like You...Ever in the World.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

Dr. [ Peter R.] Breggin's book can show you how to take your child back from the authoritarian state that wants to dope your child up because he may be misbehaving.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

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. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.