I don’t know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i’m just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise....

Gusty McCabe, tha’s m’ name and tellin’ stories, tha’s m’ game, If they all ain’t true I ain’t t’ blame, I’ll tell ’em all just the same.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

To be a good writer, become a good listener.

God’s greatest blessing; gift of children.

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.

You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

Don’t look so sad, Eric. There isn’t a day that passes when your nosy beak doesn’t find its way into someone’s business. I’m sure you’ll find the best-ever story before

A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.You want something a little more colourful,...

You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

We are God’s chosen people.We are God’s treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God’s children.

On a certain level, homeschooling is all about socialization. Whatever the teaching methods used in school or homeschool, it is ultimately the social environment itself that distinguishes homeschooling from conventional school. This social environment includes...

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists...

Hey, ants!” she shouted. “Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe’s lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again

True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway

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!