Quotes

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
— Emilie Buchwald 

“Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.”
— Oliver Sachs

Mary Cassat Reading to her Children

“Every child deserves to be read to. It is a great bonding time for you and your baby.”
― Abha C.

“There are no bounds to the potential of a child who has been well loved; and by well loved I mean hugged tightly, kissed sweetly and read to often!”
― Leigh Ann Hrutkay 

“You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.”
— Strickland Gillian

Margaret W. Tarrant, Young Girl with Primroses

“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
― Hazel Rochman

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.”
— Neil Gaiman

Beatrix Potter

“A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket.”
— Chinese Proverb

“There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
— Paul Sweeney

C.S. Lewis

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
— Oscar Wilde

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature meet and sometimes merge, and we wonder then whether a given work is truly for children or truly for grown-ups. The answer, of course, is: for both.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I haven't read.”
— Abraham Lincoln

Mark Twain with his Children

“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.”
— Mark Twain

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.“
— Victor Hugo

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
— Frederick Douglass

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!”
― Betty Smith

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
— Heinrich Mann

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
—Anna Quindlen

 

A.A. Milne with Christopher Robin

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.”
― Philip Pullman

“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper ‘One more time’ in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality.”
— L.R. Knost

“My belief was, and is, that the child’s book is a unique and valid art form; a means of dealing with things which cannot be dealt with quite as well in any other way. There is, I’m convinced, no inner, qualitative difference between writing for adults and writing for children. The raw materials are the same for both: the human condition and our response to it.”
― Lloyd Alexander