I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

Tu seras toujours mon ami. Tu auras envie de rire avec moi.

No matter how different one looks or may seem, all are just shades in the colorful rainbow of life that loves everyone, no matter if they are short, purple, or green.

…There’s forty-two thousand jobs, near ten thousand of ’em got by people like us. Everyone’s gotta eat. Industry feeds ’em. They figure Little Bear here’s gonna clean it up.” He squeezed his baby, a dimpled...

Enjoy the brush strokes of life and try not to worry about filling the canvas.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.

Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!

I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable...

The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.

Roaring is never a voice for indoors. Roaring sounds better when done outdoors!

Daa-r’uu Wee-z’oo.”-Ettie the Explorer

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.”You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet, you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no...

Spiders don’t chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey’s insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

Meeting writers is usually disappointing, at best. Writers who write sexy thrillers aren’t necessarily sexy or thrilling in person. Children’s book writers might look more like accountants, or axe murderers for that matter. Horror writers...

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to say. I’m not sure what is planned, if, you go against their wishes....

See with your heart, not just your eyes

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you’re ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can....

She’d always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be — she was a librarian, after all.

Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently, as it’s yet t’be unveiled, depicts King Tingaling XX in rather compromisin’ position...

The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life.

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

Ce n’était qu’un renard semblable à cent mille autres. Mais j’en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde.

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had...

We all R failures that’s why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and...

Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don’t make them off limits. (within reason)

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. “Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview.” Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011....

Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

Basset Hounds never get scared. We’re fearless, resolute and know how to season a good lamb chop.

Always dream big and dare to believe!

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

Je pense, donc je suis…Descartes

Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be...

For are we not, all of us, wand’rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?

Every book has it’s destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins” The days of Childhood !!!!!

Be fair. Play hard.

Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that...

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children’s books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or...

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn’t be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going...

Duke to Michel: I’m fairly certain that even ifyou’d struggle in a quiz against a pigeon, you are capable enough of opening doors.

As soon as I open this door, I’ll be free. FREE! No more goofy cats screaming in my face and eating my shoes. No more biting and scratching and chasing me down the street. Outside...

As night falls silently all around,She carefully turns the last page.

On the Writing Process:”When in doubt, take it out.,

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you...

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.”~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?

Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire.No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire.He heard a sound and froze, danger tickling his nose.His ears perked up as tiny cries...