Please look after this bear. Thank you.

Michael Bond

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“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
    “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
    “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
    Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
    “It’s the same thing,” he said.

A. A. Milne

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“They heard and felt the breath of spring, and they stirred with new life and hope. There was a good, new smell in the air, a smell of earth waking after its long sleep.”

E. B. White

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“I don’t write for children. I write—and somebody says, ‘that’s for children.'”

Maurice Sendak

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“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”

Maurice Sendak

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“‘Well, I am pretty,’ replied Charlotte. ‘There’s no denying that. Almost all spiders are rather nice-looking. I’m not as flashy as some, but I’ll do.'”

E. B. White

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“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth. They accept, almost without question, anything you present them with, as long as it is presented honestly, fearlessly, and clearly. I handed them, against the advice of experts, a mouse-boy, and they accepted it without a quiver. In Charlotte’s Web, I gave them a literate spider, and they took that.”

E. B. White

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“Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention. I’m lucky again—my own vocabulary is small, compared to most writers, and I tend to use the short words. So it’s no problem for me to write for children. We have a lot in common.”

E. B. White

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“Outside the window, there was so much to see, and hear, and touch—walks to take, hills to climb, caterpillars to watch as they strolled through the garden […] And, in the very room in which he sat, there were books that could take you anywhere, and things to invent, and make, and build, and break, and all the puzzle and excitement of everything he didn’t know—music to play, songs to sing, and worlds to imagine and then someday make real.”

Norton Juster

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“One day Mr. Mallard decided he’d like to take a trip to see what the rest of the river was like, further on. So off he set.”

Robert McCloskey

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“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”

E. B. White

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“‘How long does getting thin take?’ asked Pooh anxiously.”

A. A. Milne

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“From now on there’s a new rule: Be nice to spiders.”

Margaret Bloy Graham

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“‘It is hard to be brave,’ said Piglet, sniffling slightly, ‘when you’re only a Very Small Animal.'”

A. A. Milne

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