Children's Books Quotes - Page 5

• You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Fun, Book

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.113, Penguin

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• I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

  Dolly Parton

  Stars, Children, Book

  "Dolly Parton remains a down-home treasure". Interview with Jim Abbott, www.catholic.org. October 20, 2008.

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• There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Art, Children, Book

  Brian K. Vaughan (2014). “Saga, Vol. 3”, p.50, Image Comics

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• You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

  Julia Roberts

  Dream, Book, Love You

  "Fictional character: Tinkerbell". "Hook", www.imdb.com. December 8, 1991.

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• As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once again she could watch Spring and Summer and Fall and Winter come and go. Once again she was lived in and taken care of. Never again would she be curious about the city... Never again would she want to live there... The stars twinkled above her... A new moon was coming up... It was Spring... And all was quiet and peaceful in the country.

  Virginia Lee Burton

  Summer, Country, Stars

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• Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

  Arnold Lobel

  Book, Waiting, Feelings

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• 'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.'And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

  Shel Silverstein

  Book, Tired, Boys

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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• The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the water around him filled with glimmering scales, he at last felt at home among the other fish.

  Marcus Pfister

  Book, Home, Water

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• One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won first prize...but he didn't. I don't care. You can keep all your small dogs. You can keep all your black, white, brown, and spotted dogs. I'll keep Clifford...Wouldn't you?

  Norman Bridwell

  Dog, Book, Hair

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• Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Children

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2014

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• You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

  St. Lucia

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• I tend to be known for different things. I mean, there are a lot of comics or sci-fi fans out there who sort of think of me doing that kind of work, but there are just as many people who like the CD covers I've done, or the children's books I've done. So different people like different things.

  Dave McKean

  Children, Book, Mean

  Source: asitecalledfred.com

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• I grew up loving fantasy, adventure, and children's book series. At the time, I was in a place in LA where I wasn't working and I kind of thought to myself, "What do I really want to do? Like, what kind of role would be really exciting for me?" And I sort of thought about being in an adventurous, magical, fantastical world and a character that was powerful and sophisticated and perhaps even a dandy, that might have even passed in my head, and then I got an audition for the show ["The Magicians"] shortly after.

  Hale Appleman

  Children, Powerful, Book

  "Why Eliot on The Magicians Is the Fantasy Character We've All Been Waiting For". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 9, 2016.

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• I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids a children's book that was inspired by them would be everything!

  Trista Sutter

  Children, Book, Kids

  "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.

  John Boyne

  Running, Growing Up, Children

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.

  John Boyne

  Children, Distance, Book

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

  John Cheever

  Children, Philosophy, Book

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• Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children's books and come back to music.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Moving, Book

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• Life Will Never Be The Same Because There Had Never Been Anyone Like You...Ever in the World.

  Nancy Tillman

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Nancy Tillman (2006). “On the Night You Were Born”, p.3, Feiwel & Friends

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• When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

  Lev Grossman

  Children, Book, Thinking

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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• You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're young, when they grow up they'll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' And then they'll fight, and they'll have a revolution. They'll fight against all of our corruption in the world, they'll fight to try to make the world more beautiful. That's the job of a good children's book illustrator.

  Tony Millionaire

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

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• I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter what I draw, it always looks like it comes from a children's book. I can't resist. I'll set out to paint a serious picture then think, "Well, maybe there would be a little bunny in that corner."

  Jan Brett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.

  Frank Partnoy

  Children, Mistake, Book

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• People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

  David Walliams

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Summer, Children

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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