Children S Books Quotes
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![C.S. Lewis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1564671804i/1069006._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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![Dr. Seuss](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193930952i/61105._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
― Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
― Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
![George Carlin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1664917557i/22782._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
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Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
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![Philip Pullman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614625372i/3618._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.
[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”
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[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”
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![Sarah Beth Durst](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188007776i/99117._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.”
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![Brian K. Vaughan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1557530189i/24514._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned rules are there for a reason.
Of course, the actual message to the careful reader is: break rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?”
― Saga, Volume 3
Of course, the actual message to the careful reader is: break rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?”
― Saga, Volume 3
![Andrea Koehle Jones](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1617812512i/2817234._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”
― The Wish Trees: How Planting Trees Can Help Make the World a Better Place
― The Wish Trees: How Planting Trees Can Help Make the World a Better Place
![Phyllis Reynolds Naylor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1649167627i/13608._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure.
What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.”
― Alice in Rapture, Sort of
What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.”
― Alice in Rapture, Sort of
![Orson Scott Card](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1294099952i/589._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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“One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.”
― Worst Enemies/Best Friends
― Worst Enemies/Best Friends
![Louise Fitzhugh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1196258050i/2560._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”
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![Joanne Crisner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1323330208i/5343547._UX200_CR0,81,200,200_.jpg)
“Long before we even lose our lives, we lose our souls. Tragic but true. Some carry on—willing to make the sacrifices, putting what is perceived as important before anything else. Some tread into the dark—wasting moments of grace, letting themselves suffer from their own decisions or the other’s domination. Some continue to love, give too much, and not leave even a little love for themselves.”
― Brightest
― Brightest
![Neil Gaiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.”
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![Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1197934848i/2041._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.”
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![Jay Miller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238126600i/2884569._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“Start each day in such a way that satan screams, OH NOOOOO...He's getting up!”
― Sal and Sally
― Sal and Sally
![Larry Itejere](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1326031936i/5116781._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.”
― The Silver Arrow
― The Silver Arrow
![Suzy Davies](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612566293i/473767._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“So little Moon Pig put her snout into the soft dandelion head, which was round, and glowing, just like the moon. She blew and blew...”
― Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid
― Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid
![Veronica Randolph Batterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1428438289i/4153417._UY200_CR32,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Dancing. I couldn't understand the fascination my brother had for it, but I could respect what it meant to him. How could one imagine and wonder about something so simple? An action most take for granted, yet to those with limited abilities, it's as special as floating on a cloud and snatching the nearest star from the sky to stuff in your pocket so you might wish upon it whenever you choose.”
― Billy's First Dance
― Billy's First Dance
“To delight a child, to add a new joy to the crowded miracles of childhood, is no less worth doing than to leave a Sistine Chapel to astound a somewhat bored procession of tourists; or to have written a classic that sells by the thousands and is possessed unread by all save an infinitesimal percentage of its owners. It is, then, not an ignoble thing to do one’s very best to give our coming rulers – children – a taste of the Kingdom of Art.”
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![Leah Broadby](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1683761431i/14222500._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, “You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now!”
― A Dreadful Daughter's Spells
― A Dreadful Daughter's Spells
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