“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand… a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to—or draw down to—children.”
Tag: quotes
Quote From The Lorax
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
Quote On The Wonders & Magic Inside Books
“Sometimes I feel as though these old books are like this [candy Easter] egg. They have the same sort of wonders lying dormant inside of them, magical windows into the past and a world long gone, to imaginary places and adventures waiting patiently for rediscovery. Unused and unnoticed on a shelf in a library or thrift shop or antique store, they wait until one day they are picked up and read and loved and brought back to life. Their magic will stay alive so long as someone is reading them and that, my friends, is a wondrous thing indeed.”
Astrid Lindgren On A Childhood Without Books
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
Quote From Frank Viva
“Sometimes I get lost.”
Quote From Barbara Cooney
“You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”
Three Books a Night 