Children S Literature Quotes

Where do starfish come from?” asked Sam.“From the sky,” answered Stella. “Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea.”“Weren’t the stars afraid of drowning?” asked Sam.“No,” said Stella. “They all learned how to swim.

~ Marie-Louise Gay

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.

~ Roald Dahl

It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts to dance ballet.

~ Jeff Hutchins

When I listen to you, Godwhen I do what you ask me to,I am like a treeplanted by a river,a tree full of fruitwith leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

~ Marie-Hélène Delval

Children are sacred beings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.

~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.

~ J.m. Barrie

To be a good writer, become a good listener.

~ Cynthia Briggs

If you haven't walked in someone else's shoes, it's difficult to know the fit, so be kind and compassionate.

~ Heather Wolf

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

~ L.m. Montgomery

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever you're right, shut up.~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

~ Ogden Nash

Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

~ Dr. Seuss

It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte...If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.

~ S.j. Musgraves

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?

~ Heidi Schulz

The dying bees, the Antarctic melt, the mountains of old tires, the incessant toxic belch of factories that make Batman bobbleheads for Happy Meals. Off-gassing couches! Cancerous tinned tomatoes! Imprisoned killer whales! Our breastmilk is poisoned. We live absurdedly, ridiculously. OUR BREASTMILK IS POISONED. Try and explain even one sliver of it to a kid, just one angle of a thousand, and you'll see the face of the world's most incredulous and urgent WTF.We have little to recommend us, and we know it. We shrug.Rasmus Krook is the Captain of the Griffons. He doesn't shrug.

~ Kate Inglis

Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire.No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire.He heard a sound and froze, danger tickling his nose.His ears perked up as tiny cries of capture rose.

~ J.z. Bingham

Kat held her head high as she met the King's eye.Her stare was bold, yet sweet, and it would not die.Gansevort looked down into these dark, green pools.And soon his tone softened as he bought her ruse.

~ J.z. Bingham

No matter how different one looks or may seem, all are just shades in the colorful rainbow of life that loves everyone, no matter if they are short, purple, or green.

~ Jennifer Sodini

Jocelyn’s stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast.

~ Heidi Schulz

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness… The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They’re embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it.

~ Philip Pullman

For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.

~ Greg Pincus

When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.

~ Celine Kiernan

A child s a special possession from God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

…if you will quit squirming about and be patient you will see that most things in life, wishes included, do not have immediate results.

~ Heidi Schulz

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met Lady, Ken met his friend Flicka, Atlanta burned, Manderley burned, Lassie came home, Jim ran away, Alice got small, Wilbur got big, David Copperfield was born, Beth died, and, on an endless gloomy winter afternoon, Jody shot his yearling.

~ Jo Ann Beard

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

~ Dr. Seuss

Children see beauty in everything.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Daa-r'uu Wee-z'oo.-Ettie the Explorer

~ Lynn Holland

Sunny was a treat to read. It is most appealing as the story is very well done and the artwork is beautiful. I applaud the author for writing a book to meet the needs of very young children as well as children of elementary school age. I experienced many different feelings as I read the book and I know otehrs will experience the same thing. The guide to further discussion at the end of teh book will be most helpful as foster parents read this story to the children in their care.

~ Theresa Macinnis Schimmel

Really, there was only one problem with Mr. Davis, as far as Gregory was concerned; He taught math.

~ Greg Pincus

Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in trouble. And this is what she did...and what he did...and how they learned to survive it. This is what they did...and why one failed...and why another triumphed in the end. And I know that it's true, because I danced at their wedding and drank their very best wine.

~ Terri Windling

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete

~ John Steinbeck