My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum wa…

- Anthony Browne

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

- Anthony Browne

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not…

- Anthony Browne

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

- Anthony Browne

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

- Anthony Browne

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look …

- Anthony Browne

I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books…

- Anthony Browne

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there w…

- Anthony Browne

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

- Anthony Browne