Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself..

You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the oc….

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 rare….

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me..

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful..

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life..

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today..

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied..

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it..

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first..

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labo….

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can..

Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good..

The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came….

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense..

At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears we….

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow..

As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have….

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an ….

Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But….