Quotes on Children Book

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.