{"quotes":[{"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":"Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies.","author":"Patrick Rothfuss","tags":["children-s-literature","childrens-book","education","mind"],"id":13305,"author_id":"Patrick+Rothfuss"},{"text":"Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.","author":"Mignon McLaughlin","tags":["children-s-literature","inspirational","young-adult-fiction"],"id":13562,"author_id":"Mignon+McLaughlin"},{"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":"She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["children-s-literature","fantasy","peter-pan"],"id":37314,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"So that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration.","author":"Maurice Sendak","tags":["children","children-s-literature","fairy-tales","fear","feelings","imagination","incest","oedipus-complex","rolling-stones","traditional-tales"],"id":38880,"author_id":"Maurice+Sendak"},{"text":"There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!","author":"Editor","tags":["arts","children-s-literature","dance","family","theater"],"id":39522,"author_id":"Editor"},{"text":"A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!","author":"Dr. Seuss","tags":["children-s-literature","comedy","dr-seuss","optimist","optimistic","yourself"],"id":47162,"author_id":"Dr.+Seuss"},{"text":"Children see beauty in everything.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["child","childbirth","children-s-literature","parental-love","parenthood","parenting-advice","parents","parents-and-children","pregnancy"],"id":67024,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Come, my child,' I said, trying to lead her away. 'Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries.'Good-bye, poor hare!' Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child.'Oh, my darling, my darling!' she moaned, over and over again. 'And God meant your life to be so beautiful!","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["children","children-s-literature","death","dying","god","grief","hares","rabbits"],"id":71674,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}