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“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?”

Feels Children Feelings Animal Share Creatures Adults Cat Ecstasy Puppy Caress Grownups

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.”

“[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.”

World Novel Adults Teenager Grownups

Author:Judy Blume

“There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.”

Kids Age Interest Goes On Adults Decided Lists Relate Flash Robins Grownups Sidekicks

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.”

Way Humans Language Human Beings Lord Plans Adults Rings Code Maps Not Interested Grownups Infantile

Author:Philip Pullman

“Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.”

Heart Stills Might Running Brother Adults Scared Proof Vulnerable Betray Rapids Invasion Grownups Leon Running Scared

Book:The Chocolate War

Source: The Chocolate War

“If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.”

Ifs Children Doe Book Enough Interest Adults Good Enough Not Good Enough Grownups

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet