Barbara Cooney > Quotes

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.”
― Barbara Cooney

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.

(from the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)”
― Barbara Cooney, Chanticleer and the Fox

“You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius”
― Barbara Cooney

“You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”
― Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius

“When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea.”
― Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius