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“When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.”

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Author:Roald Dahl

“When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

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Author:Margery Williams

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.”

“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.”

“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.”

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Author:L. Frank Baum

“I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”

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Source: A Wrinklein Time Quintet

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”

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Author:Judith Viorst

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”

“For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.”

“The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”

Source: Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)

“Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”

“It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.”

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Book:Alice Through the Looking Glass: Musical

Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass: Musical

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”

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Author:Richard Adams

“I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.”

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Author:Arnold Lobel

“I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.”

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes.”

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Source: The phantom tollbooth

“My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.”

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Author:Jarrett J. Krosoczka

“Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.”

Source: The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.”

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Book:James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.”

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Author:Beverly Cleary

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.”

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Author:Roald Dahl

“Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.”

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Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Love of books is the best of all.”

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