Children S Literature Quotes - Page 2

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

Muse

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love to help children's souls shine.

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

Don Roff

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.

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

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

Margaret Wise Brown

Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries.""Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child."Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!

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