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• ‟ Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.

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• ‟ Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

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• ‟ I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

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• ‟ Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

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• ‟ As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

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• ‟ One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

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• ‟ As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

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• ‟ As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

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