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  Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Sympathy, Baby

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• There is no place like home.

  L. Frank Baum

  Inspiring, Home, Children's Books

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ch. 4 (1900) See Hesiod 3; Payne 2

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

  Andrea Brown

  Children, Book, Writing

  "The World Doesn't Need Another Rhyming Tooth Fairy Story: A Conversation with Children's Book Agent Andrea Brown". Interview with Anna Olswanger, www.underdown.org. 1998.

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• I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

  Watty Piper

  Inspiring, Book, Thinking

  The Little Engine That Could (1930)

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• ...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy.

  Munro Leaf

  Book, Children's Books

  Munro Leaf (1977). “El cuento de Ferdinando”, Puffin

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• Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Book, Differences

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• Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

  Peter H. Reynolds

  Art, Children, Book

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• The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

  Rosemary Wells

  Children, Book, Heart

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• For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, Book, Children's Books

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children, Book, Past

  E. L. Konigsburg (1995). “Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups”, Atheneum Books

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• A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Book, Perfect

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.

  Jerry West

  Children, Book, Writing

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• My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Book, Passion

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• Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

  Helen Dunmore

  Strong, Children, Book

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• We all can dance when we find music that we love.

  Giles Andreae

  Inspiring, Book, Children Love

  "Giraffes Can't Dance". Book by Giles Andreae, September 1, 2001.

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• Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

  Michael Rosen

  Children, Book, Should Have

  "Macca the Paperback Writer". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

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• 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.

  Leo Lionni

  Change, Children, Book

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• Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Book, Writing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Book, Fate

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• [My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Book, Responsibility

  "5 Minutes With... Gloria Estefan". Interview with Robert Dominguez, www.nydailynews.com. October 31, 2005.

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• There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

  Barbara Park

  Smile, Children, Fun

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• Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Children, Book, Eight

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