Tamara Graves

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“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.”
― Theodore Geisel

tags: books, children-s-literature, dr-seuss, reading, writers

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“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

tags: children, children-s-literature

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“Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
― George Carlin

tags: children-s-books, children-s-literature

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“More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.”
― Sonya Hartnett

tags: australia, children-s-literature

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