As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship.” – John Hanlon, the sailor

Reading is Intriguing…it can take you on a great Adventure!

In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape.

children need love most when they don’t deserve it

Every child should be nurture with great love. The feeling of great love promotes wellness and potential for greatness.

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which...

Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain

Wait,” Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. “I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.

I come to oil country with a book about radicals who wish for the end of pipelines. But that’s not what it’s about. It’s the friction point of prosperity and concern, ability and disability, the...

~Reading a book is like looking through a window!

Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She found her...

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them,...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt....

Children need your LOVE especially when they don’t deserve it

We need to take turns – it’s the kind thing to do.

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

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!