Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marv… - Joan Aiken
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marv…
- Joan Aiken
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text w… - Joan Aiken
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text w…
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it. - Joan Aiken
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men toget… - Joan Aiken
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men toget…
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their mi… - Joan Aiken
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their mi…
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact. - Joan Aiken
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. - Joan Aiken
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement. - Joan Aiken
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been u… - Joan Aiken
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been u…
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