Top 100 Children Children S Books Quotes
#1. I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.
J.K. Rowling
#2. I discovered that the real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with you at all. It is about a very special gift. I want to you tell you about this gift.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#3. I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.
Jeff Shelby
#5. The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim
#6. 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.
Jim Trelease
#7. I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
Michael Foreman
#8. 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!
Enid Blyton
#9. If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!
Jeff Hutchins
#10. My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.
Josh McDowell
#11. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Peter S. Jennison
#12. And as she flew away she shouted to the masses down below, JUST BE YOURSELF, that's unusual enough, and you will steal the show!" -Penelope, the Grumpy Pony
Angela DeVere Taylor
#13. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.
Ogden Nash
#15. Whose mouse are you?"
Nobody's mouse.
"Where is your mother?"
Inside a cat.
"Where is your father?"
Caught in a trap.
Robert Kraus
#16. I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.
Melissa De La Cruz
#17. Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.
Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually.
Think, Act Wise before it's Late.
Ilaxi Patel
#18. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL
Michelle M. Pillow
#19. If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.
J.K. Rowling
#20. A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
A.S. Byatt
#21. Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.
Sid Fleischman
#23. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
Fanny Howe
#24. For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?
Joan W. Blos
#25. They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them - never bad, often good, sometimes hard.
C.J. Milbrandt
#26. People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
Beverly Cleary
#27. I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
J.K. Rowling
#28. Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous
Bette A. Stevens
#29. ~Reading a book is like looking through a window!
Zetta Hupf
#30. So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.
Alison Cooklin
#31. When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.
Paula Fox
#32. Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children's hands are immeasurably more important than the latest works of high-profile novelists.
M.G. Harris
#33. If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
Benny Bellamacina
#34. It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.
Mac Barnett
#35. Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain
Avi Salmon
#36. Within you is everything you need; hold on to that and let go of everything else.
Darryl Diptee
#37. 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!
Trista Sutter
#38. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.
Jo Walton
#39. Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
#40. If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, "You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now!
Leah Broadby
#41. 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.
David Walliams
#42. Because you cannot tame something so happily wild...
Emily Hughes
#43. They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.
R.S. Thomas
#44. A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
Julie Murphy
#45. I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#46. A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
C.S. Lewis
#47. Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
Helen Dunmore
#48. She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be
she was a librarian, after all.
Sarah Beth Durst
#49. It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
R.L. Stine
#50. Cry out in the wilderness with a voice that's not heard. Speak boldly in Christ though you won't say a word.
R'chelle Cyrus
#51. 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.
Michael Ian Black
#52. Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!
Jan Britland
#53. I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
Al Yankovic
#54. 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.
Enid Blyton
#55. Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Steve Wozniak
#56. The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.
Dara Horn
#57. On ol' Halloween Night
These monsters join the living
If they had it their way
They'd stay until Thanksgiving
Casey Browning
#58. 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 ...
Brian Selznick
#59. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
C.S. Lewis
#60. For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
LeVar Burton
#61. Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.
Katherine Rundell
#62. In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.
Amy Chua
#63. Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children's books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic. We also love "Tacky the Penguin", and I love "Guji Guji" - all because they teach great life lessons without being teachy.
Abbie Schiller
#64. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#65. Beauty comes from the inside, beyond your fair skin.
E. Mellyberry
#66. Fear of new ideas breeds angry head spiders that have been known to attack.
Leah Broadby
#67. I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.
David Markson
#68. You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
James Thurber
#69. Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be subjected to the same standards of criticism as any other form of literature.
Lillian H. Smith
#70. To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
William Steig
#71. There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
James Patterson
#72. The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.
Terry Pratchett
#74. When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set ... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.
Jane Gardam
#75. Be quick to say, "Sorry," be quick to forgive, and you'll always have friends, as long as you live.
James L. Papandrea
#76. Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don't even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that's wrong.
Judy Blume
#77. 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.
Sophie Kinsella
#78. You are not alone in this world; you are the vine from a tree that connects all mankind. Long before you were born, God wrote greatness next to your name.
Janet Autherine
#79. That winter everything changed. Stella had lost not only her twin but her best friend. Bayonie was never mentioned again, so that, in time, Stella wondered if she really had ever existed.
Helen Laycock
#80. Life can be stressful! When the world Shouts "Chaos" God's messages of Love whisper "Seek My Peace" Encourage Children to search out God's Blessings in life!
Dianna Wyles
#81. I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
Mark Haddon
#82. Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.
Louise Fitzhugh
#83. Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!
Nikki Grimes
#85. Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties
Lloyd Alexander
#86. Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals.
Neil Gaiman
#88. If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.
Peter Jackson
#89. In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
Malorie Blackman
#90. 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.
Beverly Cleary
#91. There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize
it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.
Stanislaw Lem
#92. I know. I know. But he's always buried in those books or shuffling around the house like he's lost in some dream." "And?" "I wasn't like that." Baba sounded frustrated, almost angry. Rahim Khan laughed. "Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.
Khaled Hosseini
#93. By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
Kate Forsyth
#94. I couldn't comprehend why she still hadn't stopped him because it's clearly every mother's responsibility to protect her children. After all, that's the trust that bonds a mother and her child together, forever
Veronika Gasparyan
#95. School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
Chris Riddell
#96. 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!
Julie Murphy
#97. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.
James Howe
#98. Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.
Lois Lowry
#99. In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.
Brian Wildsmith
#100. We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way
Tushar Upreti
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