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.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
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.
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 was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
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.
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.
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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.
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.
One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.
Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.
There is no place like home.
