Children S Literature Quotes

We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.

~ Jessica Marie Baumgartner

She may not be like everyone else, but neither am I.

~ Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.And you will see my children, your smile will never let you down ☺

~ Benny Bellamacina

In the great green room, there was a telephoneAnd a red balloonAnd a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...

~ Margaret Wise Brown

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.

~ Astrid Lindgren

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

~ C.s. Lewis

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

~ Don Roff

I love to help children's souls shine.

~ Bracha Goetz

Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted brain to take. Some of the parts must be sculpted at critical times. One cannot, after all, carve out toes unless he knows where the foot will go. We need tools to do some of the fine work. The tools are our childhood experiences. And I'm convinced that one of those experiences must be children's books. And they must be experienced within the early years of our long childhood.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

~ Annie Bryant

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

~ J.m. Barrie

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

~ J.m. Barrie

As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.

~ J.k. Rowling

Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

~ Gregory Funaro

Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Your name isn't Sniffles? Ewan pretended to be surprised.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Calico KittyMy calico kittywas painted and primedshe could prowlthe night away ~without spending a dime...

~ Muse

There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!

~ Editor

Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

~ Andrea Koehle Jones

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

~ Margaret Wise Brown

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

~ Margaret Wise Brown

Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Down vith children! Do them in!Boil their bones and fry their skin!Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!Offer chocs vith magic powder!Say “Eat up!” then say it louder.Crrram them full of sticky eats,Send them home still guzzling sveets.And in the morning little foolsGo marching off to separate schools.A girl feels sick and goes all pale.She yells, “Hey look! I've grrrown a tail!”A boy who's standing next to herScreams, “Help! I think I'm grrrowing fur!” Another shouts, “Vee look like frrreaks!There's viskers growing on our cheeks!”A boy who vos extremely tallCries out, “Vot's wrong? I'm grrrowing small!”Four tiny legs begin to sprrroutFrom everybody rrround about.And all at vunce, all in a trrrice,There are no children! Only MICE!

~ Roald Dahl

The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her invisible?

~ C.j. Milbrandt

It pains me to admit this, but Roger was a good sight less stupid than most children.

~ Heidi Schulz

Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins The days of Childhood !!!!!

~ Tushar Upreti

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

~ Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent social station), and kind (to anyone in obvious need), even a child can succeed where those who seem more qualified have failed.And this precisely what children most need to hear.To let them go on believing that the world is safe, that they will be provided for and achieve worthwhile things even if they remain stupid, shirk integrity, despise courtesy, and act only from self-interest, that they ought to rely on those stronger, smarter, and more able to solve their problems, would be the gravest disservice: to them, and to society as a whole.-On the Supposed Unsuitability of Fairytales for Children

~ J. Aleksandr Wootton

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 doyour best. That will make you special, too!

~ Jeff Hutchins

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child there is more joy in a rubbish tip than a flowery rockery, in a fallen tree than a piece of statuary, in a muddy track than a gravel path.

~ Iona Opie

[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as as ungovernable and dangerous forces. To master these forces, children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction.

~ Maurice Sendak

so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration.

~ Maurice Sendak

As far as I can tell, it doesn't make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with the other adult.

~ R.l. Lafevers

Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see.

~ Betsy Hearne

Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen

~ Wendy Milton