“What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.” IfsThinkingWritingChildrenFactsStuffFantasyLikesLabelsCrossover Author:Robin McKinley
“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.” NeedsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookIdeasHandsMightWould BeLanguageSupportViolenceFailingTeachingMiddleExpressionKissingAdultsTreatsCommittedLikesAbsurdGradesAppropriateCitizenshipTopicsOccasionalOrientationValidationExplicitHolding HandsBad WritingBad Language Author:Rick Riordan
“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.” ChildrenFactsKidsGrowsPayLaughingGrowing UpDangerousHumourWindAdultsPrisonScaredProfessionSillyLikesChosenFunny Kid Book:Leaving home: a memoir Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.” ShouldChildrenLongBookDoneNationsEconomyColdQuietStrategyCalmDetailsWitLikesClarityJournalismWitnessRestaurantsSeriousnessAccumulationEricFast FoodImpassionedRigourBest AmericanFast Food NationFast Food Restaurants Author:Adam Nicolson
“The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.” WantChildrenEnoughHomeSchoolClassIntelligentLikesComing HomeBritons Book:Rates of Exchange Source: Rates of Exchange