Children S Quotes

Children S Quote of the day

Curiouser and curiouser.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

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

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

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.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

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

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

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 have no patience with pretence.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

There is no place like home.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

We be of one blood, ye and I

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Children's books are by nature partisan.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids a children's book that was inspired by them would be everything!