Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.
People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'
I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.
I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.
A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.
I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
There is no place like home.
A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
