children's book

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children's literature

is written by people with that extremely rare ability to retain a child's view of the world and a mature understanding of what it means to retain it.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

is not a minor amusement but part of the whole literary mainstream.

is a unique and valid art form; a means of dealing with things which cannot be dealt with quite as well in any other way.

is written to be read, just as adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties

Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties

is a genre whose greatest representatives, by definition, appeal to the widest readership of all, for while there are good books which are only for adults, there are no good books which are only for children.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

is any book at all if you give it to a child. Children are the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

is best written to be so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years.

The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl

is, in these days of tension and confusion, the form of literature with a greater potential for good or evil than any other on earth.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

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