Picture Books Quotes
Picture Books Quote of the day
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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.
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.
I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story.
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.
I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.
Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.
On the steps leading to a doorwas a scrub brush that was blue.I snatched it quick and ran for homebecause it was just the thing to chew.
Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.They liked to run races for cheese.Mice were lots of fun to play with.Jill said, "Take Poopsie, the male one, please!
Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.Out popped his head for a quick look, then he took leave.He enjoyed scaling up, down and around her shirt.What a sweet, funny and adorable flirt.
Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.
Wait, " Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.
What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?
I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.
We create our work for children not because they're "cute, " but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.
I know they were mean to me and to you, but helping them now is the right thing to do.
If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!
Toilet paper unrolled and slitheredthen wrapped around my tummy.That paper tried to roll me upinto an Egyptian mummy.