Best quotes by Malorie Blackman on Children

Checkout quotes by Malorie Blackman on Children

• ‟ Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

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• ‟ Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

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• ‟ What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

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• ‟ Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

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• ‟ Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

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• ‟ The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

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• ‟ In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

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• ‟ I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

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