{"quotes":[{"text":"On a certain level, homeschooling is all about socialization. Whatever the teaching methods used in school or homeschool, it is ultimately the social environment itself that distinguishes homeschooling from conventional school. This social environment includes the nature and quantity of peer interaction; parental proximity; solitude; relationships with adults, siblings, older children, younger children, and the larger community; the ways in which the children are disciplined and by whom; and even the student-teacher ratio and the overall environment where the children spend their time.","author":"Rachel Gathercole","tags":["children-s-books","education","homeschool","parenting"],"id":3101,"author_id":"Rachel+Gathercole"},{"text":"If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!","author":"Jeff Hutchins","tags":["children","children-s-books","children-s-literature","children-s-stories","fiction","fictional-characters","learning-lessons","reading"],"id":3400,"author_id":"Jeff+Hutchins"},{"text":"The people knew then that Greg wasn't a monster, just a hungry animal.","author":"KayeC Jones","tags":["animals","anteater","children-s-books","humor","learning-from-mistakes"],"id":6703,"author_id":"KayeC+Jones"},{"text":"One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.","author":"Michael Ende","tags":["adults","childhood","children-s","children-s-books","good-sense","literature","wisdom"],"id":9734,"author_id":"Michael+Ende"},{"text":"The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.","author":"Elias Zapple","tags":["astronauts","children-s-books","comedy-humor","dragons","fantasy","fiction-writing","humor","humour","knights"],"id":9981,"author_id":"Elias+Zapple"},{"text":"When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afte.","author":"Philip Pullman","tags":["basis","beauty","belief","book","books","children-s-books","offense","philip-pullman","value","wisdom","young-adult"],"id":15489,"author_id":"Philip+Pullman"},{"text":"If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way.","author":"Benny Bellamacina","tags":["children-s-books","humour","philosophical","poetry"],"id":21324,"author_id":"Benny+Bellamacina"},{"text":"In Dark Places, May we Never be truly Alone.....~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books.","author":"Susan Schroder","tags":["children-s-books","fantasy","illustrated-books","mythical"],"id":21674,"author_id":"Susan+Schroder"},{"text":"For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["age-groups","books","children","children-s-books","children-s-literature","escapism","fairy-tales-for-adults","fantasy","joy-of-reading","mature-readers","reading","reading-age","reading-books","reading-habits"],"id":22169,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.","author":"Larry Itejere","tags":["children-s-books","fantasy","young-adult-fiction"],"id":27334,"author_id":"Larry+Itejere"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":164,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}