“There
are many little ways
to enlarge your child's world.
Love of books is the
best of all.”
~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
”A house
without books
is like a room without windows.
No man has a right
to
bring up children
without surrounding them with books....
Children learn
to read
being in the presence of books.”
~ Heinrich
MANN
“Sure,
it’s simple,
writing for kids.
Just as simple as bringing them up.” ~
Ursula K. Le Guin
“The
children’s writer not only makes
A satisfactory connection
between
present maturity and his past childhood,
He also does the same for his
child-characters in reverse —
makes the connection between their present
childhood
and their future maturity.
That their maturity is never
visibly achieved
makes no difference;
The promise of it is there.” ~
Philippa Pearce
“The
characters in a children’s book
must reach into the heart of the reader on
page one.
Emotional content is the main reason
A child and a parent
will go back to a book again and again.” ~ Rosemary
Wells
"'A
young adult novel' ends
not with happily ever after,
but at a new
beginning,
with the sense
of a lot of life yet to be lived."~ Richard
Peck
“Who are
children anyway?
A boy of three, a girl of six,
a boy of ten,
a girl
of fourteen--
Are they all to like the same thing?
And is a book
'suitable for a boy of twelve'
any more likely to please a boy of twelve
than a modern novel is likely to please a man of thirty-seven;
Even if
the novel be described truly
as 'suitable for a man of thirty-seven'?
I
confess that I cannot grapple with these difficult problems.
But I am very
sure of this;
that no-one can write a book which children will like,
unless he write it for himself first ...
Read in it what you like;
Read it to whomever you like;
Be of what age you like;
It can only
fall into one of the two classes.
Either you will enjoy it
or you
won't." – A. A. Milne
“I
conceive that the right way to write a story for boys
is to write so that it
will not only interest boys
but strongly interest any man who has ever been
a boy.
That immensely enlarges the audience.” ~ Mark
Twain
"Children read books, not reviews.
They don't give a hoot about the
critics....
They ... don't read to free themselves of guilt,
to quench
their thirst for rebellion,
or to get rid of alienation....
They ...
still believe in God,
the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins,
logic, clarity, punctuation,
and other such obsolete stuff....
They
don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.
Young as they are,
they know that it is not in his power.
Only the adults have such
childish illusions." ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"There
are good books which are only for adults,
because their comprehension
presupposes adult experiences,
but there are no good books which are only
for children." ~W. H. Auden
"Is it
better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of life
to the young and
thoughtless traveller,
or to cover them with branches and flowers?
O
Reader!
If there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--
this
whispering 'Peace, peace,'
when there is no peace,
there would be less
of sin and misery
to the young of both sexes
who are left to wring
their bitter knowledge from experience."
~Anne Bronte,
preface to
the second edition of
“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
“Only as
we give children the truth about life
can we expect any improvement in it.”
~Mabel Louise Robinson
"It is
not a slight thing
that they, who are so fresh from God,
love us."
~Emily Dickinson
"Childhood is the one prison
from which there is no
escape,
the one sentence
from which there's no appeal." ~ P. D.
James
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