Childrens Literature Quotes

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway”
― Walt Disney Company

“Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea?
The answer is . . . yes. Of course, it's ridiculous.
Love is ridiculous.
But love is also wonderful. And powerful.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."
-Tock”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Young people are real, vibrant, important individuals deserving of our very best writing.”
― Katherine Paterson

“One night, heavy with loneliness, Stardog fell out of the sky, past the planets… down… down… down…”
― E. K. Mosley, The Last Stardog

“When children cannot find their experience and emotions – even (and especially) their fears, jealousy, sadness, and anger – reflected in the stories they read, two things can happen, both bad.
Kids may abandon reading and seek out art and media that better reflects their lives. Or, instead of deciding that there must be something wrong with books, children may decide that there must be something wrong with themselves, and become ashamed of the very human feeling, which adults have excluded from their literature.”
― Mac Barnett, Make Believe

“((راستی بچه ی آدم به چه دردی می خورد؟))
بابا با خنده و شوخی گفت: (( به هیچ دردی.))
مامان ادامه داد: ((اصلا لازم نیست به درد چیزی بخورد!))”
― Colas Gutman, L'enfant

“I write, not for children, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.”
― George MacDonald

“A lot of children's books published are propaganda for adulthood. They're prosocial messages masquerading as stories, designed to promote good behavior, glorifying grown-ups, and get kids to sleep on time. These books get praised for their educational value or positive moral messages, but they fail to provide any kind of real literacy experience for children. Instead their value is to the adults who buy them and who find themselves flattered, and their rules reinforced, in the books' pages.”
― Mac Barnett, Make Believe

“And the kids laugh. All of them, that is, except Brian. He sits there wondering which is worse- being laughed at or feeling invisible.”
― Trudy Ludwig, The Invisible Boy

“Just ONE TINY DOT makes you different from me. But we all still belong to just ONE FAMILY”
― Linsey Davis, The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same

“This book has been so much fun to write, I have loved getting to know my animal characters even better!

This is a festival not to be missed its brimming with lots of doggy and cat fun

My favourite game is the grooviest shaker competition what will yours be?”
― christine skippins

“You are enough.
You are more than enough.
You have always been and will always be enough.

Keep shining bright, and never forget that you are loved beyond measure.”
― Leyda Lazo

“Dream big and aim for the sky,
Believe in yourself and don't be shy.
Your potential is boundless, it's true,
You can achieve what you set out to do.

With every step, with every try,
You grow and learn, you reach new highs.
So chase your dreams with all your might,
And let your heart be your guiding light.”
― Leyda Lazo, I Am the Magic Within: A Journey of Light and Wonder

“Let your heart be your compass and your imagination be your guide. Believe in yourself, for you are capable of incredible things.”
― Leyda Lazo, I Am the Magic Within: A Journey of Light and Wonder

“Four kids in T-shirts and jeans jam on a powwow stage. They’re grinning, bouncing, fully engaged with their music, each other, and the relaxed crowd. I’m splitting fry bread with a cousin as we cheer on the band, and across the tent, a young girl reading a paperback catches my eye.
In that moment, I wish for more characters like those kids in the pages of children’s books.
This anthology is a fulfillment of that wish.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

“Es mi primer día de clases y me siento nerviosa porque quiero hacer nuevos amigos y no sé cómo lograrlo.

¿Querrán jugar conmigo?
¿Serán buenos amigos?
¿Y si no les caigo bien?”
― Priscilla Núñez Fernández, Mi primer día de clases

“Worry can feel like a dark shadow. But after every night, no matter how long, comes the morning light, bright and strong.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Spectacular Supernova

“Worry only helps if it pushes you to ‘do’.
But if it keeps you from having fun,
it’s like a cloud that blocks out the sun.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Spectacular Supernova

“Getting lost is not the end, you see,
but how new adventures come to be.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Spectacular Supernova

“So remember, young friend, no matter what's ahead, you're stronger than worry, even as you lay in bed. May your heart be as brave as Luna and her crew's, for the universe is vast, and it's waiting for you!”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Spectacular Supernova

“No one! That’s the point.” Alaya turned, eyes
looking fierce again.
“This forest is older than people can even comprehend. And the ocean around this island has always been for everyone. Humans are here to protect the earth and to live in peace with it. Not destroy it like Old Ugly has.”
― Lauren de Leeuw, Secrets in the Islands: A Sami Series Adventure

“I think fantasy can be the best way to introduce children to huge ideas. In many ways, it's philosophy's gorgeously painted cousin.”
― Katherine Rundell

“A good story doesn’t just entertain—it quietly shapes who we become.”
― Preeti Bajpayee

“I had never known anyone quiet enough to approach a sleeping deer. Nor had I known any hungry man who would shoot one with a camera instead of a gun.”
― Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow

“The Sun missed the Queen's presence
and did not shine its day's rays.
So the land existed in perpetual night,
unable to fully flourish and thrive.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Princess Zyra's Lost Storm: An Australian Childhood Myth

“People filed off the battered old bus. We started to push. The engine soon spluttered to life and the bus stuttered slowly forward. We were all showered in red dust, but we were laughing and cheering, with the driver horn-honking in celebration. I had even more grit between my teeth, and sand up my nose. Then there was a terrific explosion. A pall of black stuff enveloped us, adding soot to our faces. The bus juddered to a halt – again.”
― Jane Wilson-Howarth, Madagascar Misadventure

“Those of us who are children's literature enthusiasts tend to be somewhat idealistic, believing that some book, some story, some poem can speak to each individual child, and that if we have the time and resources, we can find that book and help to change that child's life, if only for a brief time, and only for a tiny bit. On the other hand, we are realistic enough to know that literature, no matter how powerful, has its limits. It won't take the homeless off our streets; it won't feed the starving of the world; it won't stop people from attacking each other because of our racial differences; it won't stamp out the scourge of drugs. It could, however, help us to understand each other better by helping to change our attitudes towards difference. When there are enough books available that can act as both mirrors and windows for all our children, they will see that we can celebrate both our differences and our similarities, because together they are what make us all human.”
― Rudine Sims Bishop

“No other group of writers is as subject to direction, pressures, taboos, theories, and doctrines as is the group which writes for children. Some of these pressures are the result of the old honest profit-and-loss motive and we are told how to write what will sell. Much of the pressure comes from a new shibboleth with which the present era is very much concerned, namely "Mass Communication" which I define, in my private mind, as "It doesn't matter how little you say or how shabby the content if only enough people hear you." The taboos, theories, and doctrines have their inception, for the most part, in the altruistic and idealistic drive of people who want to make the world a better place to live in by prescribing their own dogmas for the minds of children; or by the educators, psychologists, and miscellaneous specialists who know what should be said and how to say it and when it should be said. This latter group change their minds about every ten years, thus insuring that no parent will understand the educational system to which his child is submitted.”
― Frances Clarke Sayers, Summoned by books: essays and speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers