Kid Lit Quotes

“You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.”
― Emlyn Chand, Honey the Hero

“Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.”
― Emlyn Chand, Honey the Hero

“Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.”
― Emlyn Chand, Honey the Hero

“You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there are about fifty who’d try to spoil it. We have to guard our good ideas, our happy thoughts, and fight for them. Because if we let those others snuff them out, well, we didn’t after all deserve them.”
― J.M. Lavallee, The Wishing Stone and Other Myths Learned on Gull Cliff Island

“I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-
I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.

I wish I could focus on things that I know-
Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.”
― Brenda Lochinger, I'm Squirrely!

“My mom was afraid of dogs the same way you fear dragons. She didn’t know anything about them.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Another reason I like reading books for kids is that the content is so very “safe” in comparison to books for adults. Disturbing elements are kept at a minimum. There’s always a undercurrent of hope running through the book, promising that maybe we don’t live in a cold, cruel, calculating universe that cares for us not one jot.”
― Elizabeth Bird

“Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget turned it over and the other side would cook. Then another automatic gadget gave the doughnut a little push and it rolled neatly down a little chute, all ready to eat.”
― Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

“That's simply a fascinating machine," said the lady as she waited for the first doughnut to roll out . ⁠
"Here, young man, you must have the first one. Now isn't that just too delicious? Isn't it simply marvelous?"⁠
"Yes, Ma'm, it's very good," replied Homer, as the lady handed doughnuts to Charles, and to Mr. Gabby, and asked if they didn't think they were simply divine doughnuts.⁠
"It's an old family recipe!" said the lady with pride.”
― Robert McCloskey

“By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stacked on plates, doughnuts lined up twelve deep all along the counter, and doughnuts still rolling down the little chute, just as regular as a clock can tick.”
― Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

“Often children's book illustrators were assumed to have kind and whimsical natures--a foolish expectation, for all the best children's literature, if anyone has been paying attention, hinges on betrayal, the heartlessness of nature, death.”
― Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

“Let Imagination Lead the Way!”
― Avery Groll, The Adventures of Bubby & Bubs: A Day of Creative Indoor Play