A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at. — Jan Brett
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. — Jackie Kennedy
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty. — Virginia Hamilton
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. — Anthony Browne
Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun. — R. L. Stine
Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them. — Maurice Sendak
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. — Beverly Cleary
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
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. — Cornelia Funke
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. — George W. Bush
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
Books may well be the only true magic. — Alice Hoffman
Books, Cats, Life is Good. — Edward Gorey
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz
Books are the mirrors of the soul. — Virginia Woolf
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Childrens Book Quotes
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A. A. Milne
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony. — Mem Fox
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! — Lewis Carroll
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. — Robert Munsch
In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings. — Bashar al-Assad
Reading For Kids Quotes
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate. — Mem Fox
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. — Marilyn Jager Adams
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. — J. K. Rowling
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Francis Bacon
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift. — Kate DiCamillo
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen
The more you read, the more things you will know. — Dr. Seuss
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. — Harry S. Truman
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas. — Gary Paulsen
Children's Literature Quotes
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl
'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some. — Eleanor Porter
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. — Margery Williams
I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
I went away in my head, into a book.
There is no such thing as children’s literature. — N. V. M. Gonzalez
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing. — E. B. White
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience. — Joan Aiken
I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament. — Tasha Tudor
Reading Books To Children Quotes
My alma mater was books, a good library. — Malcolm X
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free. — Kirk Douglas
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading. — Marie Clay
A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY. — Roald Dahl
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius
WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.
As parents, the most important thing we can do
is read to our children early and often. Reading
is the path to success in school and life. When
children learn to love books, they learn to love
learning. — Laura Bush
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children. — Steve Carell
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. — Astrid Lindgren
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly
Children Literature Quotes
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. — Nicholas D. Kristof
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. — James M. Barrie
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. — H. G. Wells
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. — Ella Maillart
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. — Roald Dahl
A child needs your love most when they deserve it least.
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book. — Sid Fleischman
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
People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again. — Jeanne DuPrau
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend. — Stephen Burt
Children Reading Quotes
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better. — Magda Gerber
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are. — Ludwig van Beethoven
We learn...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else — William Glasser
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert
You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited. — John Henrik Clarke
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. — Keith Richards
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. — Dirk Kempthorne
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree. — Elizabeth George Speare
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly. — Mem Fox
Literacy For Children Quotes
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. — Kofi Annan
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country. — Harry Belafonte
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. — Katherine Paterson
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. — William James
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. — Mary Ellen Chase
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. — Hugh Mackay
There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education. — Richard Mitchell
Kids Movie Quotes
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars. — Wilt Chamberlain
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. — George Carlin
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford
Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped. — Rick Moranis
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. — George Lucas
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid. — Norman Reedus
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits. — Dan Fogler
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip. — Tom Berenger
Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store! — Phillip Noyce
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good. — Billy Bob Thornton
Picture Books Quotes
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? — David Attenborough
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. — Ansel Adams
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up. — Chris Van Allsburg
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings. — Gerald Durrell
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. — Beverly Cleary
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. — George Orwell
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. — Theodore Schroeder
Adventure Books Quotes
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. — Erich Maria Remarque
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. — Lewis Carroll
Life is a book, and every day that we live is a new page, so paint every page of your life with amazing colors of good deeds and amazing adventures. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. — Jon Scieszka
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then — Lewis Carroll
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public. — Winston Churchill
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent. — Mordecai Richler
I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them. — Bill Peet
I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job. — Rick Riordan
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up. — Robert Munsch
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white? — Studs Terkel
We live in a screen age, and to say to a kid, ‘I’d love for you to look at a book but I hate it when you look at the screen’ is just bizarre. It reflects our own prejudices and comfort zone. It’s nothing but fear of change, of being left out. — Marc Prensky
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. — Roald Dahl
Om Schooled is the perfect manual for anyone who wants to start teaching yoga to kids. This is not just a theoretical book—it is a step-by-step manual. Sarah Herrington shares the wisdom she has gained from her day-to-day experiences, for many years, teaching all ages of children yoga in the New York School system. — Sharon Gannon
I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story. — Robert Munsch
We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. — Cassandra Clare
I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now. — Julie Andrews
Today you are you! That is truer than true! — Dr. Seuss
I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out? — Jabari Asim
We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun. — Jackie French
Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't. — Jon Scieszka
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. — Daniel Handler
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. — Dean Koontz
[Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid. — Will Eisner
I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'. — Jim Carrey
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn. — Walt Disney
It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television. — Andy Andrews
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. — Arabella Weir
I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union. — Regina Spektor
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it. — Philip Pullman
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. — Bernard Williams
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. — Jean Craighead George
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people. — Henry Louis Gates
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