Maurice Sendak Quotes

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

I rarely read children's books.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

Childhood reading is so important.

I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

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.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.