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Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Scholarship on children's literature includes professional organizations, dedicated publications and university courses.

Quotations on the value of children's literature, on children as readers, on writing for children

Contents

• 1 The value of children's literature
• 2 Children as readers
• 3 Imagination
• 4 Writing for children

The value of children's literature

• Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
  • Charles Ghigna (Father Goose)

• Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
  • Anonymous

• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
  • G.K. Chesterton

• The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won, than by the stories it loves and believes in.
  • Harold Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare

• There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
  • Ursula K. LeGuin

• In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer

• In every generation, children's books mirror the society from which they arise; children always get the books their parents deserve.
  • Leonard S. Marcus

• The humble little school library...was a ramp to everything in the world and beyond, everything that could be dreamed and imagined, everything that could be known, everything that could be hoped.
  • Lee Sherman, editor of Northwest Education

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