Green: “So you’ve. . . just like we are”: WallBuilders Live!
“You can go on skates. . . Please!”: Seuss, 10–11.
“Children by dint. . . ways than one”: Maguire, 68.
“My good friend Dr. Seuss. . . Richard M. Nixon” and “I said GO. . . Richard WENT”: Buchwald.
“anyone anywhere. . . social disadvantage”: Lurie, 145.
“the child as God”: Ibid., 151.
“probably the most. . . of our time”: Lanes, Art, 87.
“Where McCloskey. . . children’s literature”: Schmidt, 15–16.
“worst [kind of] desertion. . . a child” and “It is not a book. . . at twilight”: Quoted in Lanes, Art, 104.
“[Ruth] turned me into. . . was like our child”: Quoted in Brown, 19.
“most distinguished American picture book for children”: American Library Association.
“It was like a. . . couldn’t care less”: Sendak, Moss-Coane.
the book would likely scare only a “neurotic” child or adult: Nordstrom, 167.
“horrific descriptions of evildoers” and “bizarre and often. . . child hero”: Behr, 185.
“The kinds of elaborate. . . triumphant results”: Talbot, 95.
“The essence of. . . triumph over adults”: Ibid., 98.
“If you would truly teach. . . worse than oneself!”: Lanes, Looking Glass, 127.
“Shel Silverstein. . . books for kids”: Kinney, 18.
“Whatsoever. . . to Capri!”: Raskin, 62.
“they realized. . . necessarily true”: Quoted in Rogak, 52.
“They think the kids. . . fairy tales”: Silverstein, Terkel.
“He’s an adult. . . being that honest”: Quoted in Kennedy.
“[my books] are. . . everything by instinct”: Quoted in Lanes, Looking Glass, 127.
“Americans cannot accept. . . wasn’t acceptable”: Quoted in Kennedy.
“satire of evil. . . purview of Hoffmann”: Bader, 548.
“the orneriest. . . lack of condescension”: Lanes, Looking Glass, 127.
“MAD was the first. . . kind of laugh”: Jones, 275.
“wising up. . . end of childhood”: Spiegelman and Mouly, 13–14.
“I think my pals. . . dangerously good”: Sciesczka, interview.
“Recently, MAD . . . almost everything” and “When I pitched. . . MAD would do’”: Michael Rex.
“Early on, MAD tagged advertising as fake”: Quoted in Marcus, Funny, 195.
“Who will. . . the wheat?”: Scieszka and Smith, 2.
“I am a great admirer. . . they should read” and “If memory serves. . . changed a thing”: Smith.
“The great mix. . . if. . . if?”: Scieszka, interview.
“I was a teenager. . . beer-stained sofa”: Adam Rex.
“the willfully amoral ending”: Kirkus.
“big, dark, scary wood”: Bee, 2.
“I pass along. . . subversive leaflet”: Benzel.
“In general. . . children this way”: Ruzzier.
“We are squeamish. . . turn that into art”: Sendak, Setoodeh.
“infantilizing” and “shoulds. . . in art”: Quoted in Leef.
“children’s book carnage”: Murphy.
“Sweeney Todd for the sandbox set”: McMahon.
“I don’t think. . . dangerous life can be”: Murphy.
“I think the current. . . sense of humor?”: Furness, interview.
“I am working. . . dies laughing”: Quoted in Neumeyer, 167.
“Children’s stories. . . cute, either”: Dunbar.
“I think we are more. . . Mrs. McGregor?”: Gravett.
“I think children. . . find humor in them”: LaReau.
“It’s ready-made. . . as kids on PBS?”: Magoon.
“It is, to be sure. . . cause your cats to cry”: Staake.
“dire and ridiculous”: Quoted in Marcus, Funny, 95.
“What’s so perfect. . . they still mortify me”: Ibid., 92.
children’s stories. . . their lives are: Jarrell.
“I’ve received letters. . . responses than that”: Staake.
Behind-the-Scenes Interlude: Scandalous Mysteries and Mysterious Scandals
“When the HP wagon. . . was exactly new” and “Writers have always. . . shared heritage”: Pratchett.
“Writing the book. . . off it for good”: Glovach.
“I remember Charlotte. . . And she did”: Quoted in Zolotow.
“I’d read The Pigman . . . something that good”: Kerr.
“contains 75 . . . word for word”: Quoted in Watson, 11.
“Almost everything we admire. . . writer to the end”: Holtz, 380.
“perhaps Laura. . . writing better”: Miller, 239.
“careful to maintain. . . mother’s work”: Ibid., 213.
“In an old. . . straight lines”: Bemelmans, 5
“In the middle. . . not right!”: Ibid., 21.
“the toys and. . . from Papa”: Ibid., 36.
GLBT and Literature for Youth: How Far We’ve Come
“Sometimes you have. . . tell the truth”: Fitzhugh, 276.
“Well, that I’m gay”: Quoted in Cohen.
“I think it telling. . . non-heterosexual writers”: Nel.
“perfect in its kind”: Quoted in Ellman, 299.
“the single most. . . twentieth century”: Marcus, xvii.
“Earlier this month. . . is very pleasant”: Quoted in Natov and DeLuca, 31.
“With her at the time. . . no survivors”: Anderson.
“There was a time. . . love me any more”: Quoted in Marcus, 211.
“Why don’t you . . . off my hand?”: Ibid., 214.
“The Lesbian Herstory. . . of a friend’s name”: Horning, interview.
“socially below him”: Wolf, 4.
“quintessential baby butch”: Horning, “On Spies,” 51.
“The thing that shocked. . . regularly for my brothers”: Ibid., 49–50.
“essentially trousers, vests, and boots”: Wolf, 21.
“Her parents’ response. . . tell the truth’”: Horning, “On Spies,” 51.
“All those years. . . tools for survival”: Ibid., 51–52.
“They were firm pillars. . . never ever used”: Quoted in Rix.
“For some the number. . . three hundred”: Kaiser, 283.
“literally existed. . . at a distance”: Shannon, Lobel, 11.
“In the movie. . . Depardieu”: Bram.
“One of my sources. . . in the 1970s?”: Shannon, interview.
“I do not really need. . . friends, spouses, or lovers”: Bram, 76–77.
“When he learned. . . creative powers”: Marshall, “Lobel,” 326.
“Now that he is gone. . . in greater depth”: Ibid., 327.
“At lunch with Toby. . . delicious revenge”: Hayes, 358.
“James, Arnold, and Maurice. . . and eighties”: Shannon, interview.
“a long line of masters. . . James Marshall”: Sendak, “Marshall,” 1.
“I was sitting. . . amused by this”: Marshall, Silvey.
“Child readers understand. . . these gay books” and “looks amazingly. . . clone”: Bronski.
“James the perfect friend. . . perfect artist”: Sendak, “Marshall,” 1.
“I’d wanted to use. . . assembling our volume”: Nel.
“There have several. . . old gender norms”: Ewert.
“One of the first. . . in the first place” and “After I came out. . . good about it”: Quoted in Trumble.
“I told. . . two children,” and “I couldn’t. . . the books,” and “It was. . . books existed”: Wittlinger.
“A boy doll. . . Mo-tors’”: Gould, 18.
“The book X . . . adults-in-charge!” and “I wanted to write. . . hadn’t been written”: Ewert.
“We’ve needed the twenty. . . groundbreaking wake”: Ibid.
“It was never my intent. . . in that direction”: Peters.
“Peters
isn’t putting. . . range of reactions”: Welch.
“incredibly insightful”: Basye.
“It’s true that being trans. . . dignity and humor”: Boylan, September 2010 interview.
“Recently, when a boy. . . I thought” and “Children — especially. . . what we all do”: Ibid.
“Even at the time. . . jacket flap”: Shannon, interview.
“I know that I wouldn’t be here tonight without you”: Selznick, 12.
“I’ll be blacklisted. . . dry up fast” and “I was out. . . impact my family”: Peters.
“We felt that there was. . . age-appropriate way”: Richardson and Parnell.
“For my daughter. . . baby girl penguin”: Wind.
“discipline up to. . . of employment”: School Library Journal.
“My son read. . . into a penguin”: Lockette.
“I just didn’t think it was anybody’s business”: Quoted in Cohen.
“All I wanted. . . never knew”: Ibid.
Banning on Their Minds
“When I was growing up. . . end happily”: Garden, Smith.
“The body of adolescent. . . long time”: Chelton, 30.
“I just. . . and always”: Williams, 19.
wrote that the rabbits’ . . . for brainwashing: Time.
no less than. . . desegregation: Sims, 237.
Alabama State Senator. . . should be burned: Time.
“I was completely unaware. . . understand it perfectly”: Ibid.
“He said that the reason. . . than anything else”: Rapp.
“Intellectual freedom. . . of information” and “ALA actively. . . library profession”: American Library Association.
“The naked hero. . . masturbatory fantasy”: Quoted in Lanes, Art, 185.
“disgraceful and appalling”: Quoted in Sova, 184.
“could lay. . . of pornography”: Quoted in Becker, 52.
staff member. . . course of action: Jackson.
“inappropriate”: ACLU.
“I’ll be damned if I’ll go to dancing school”: Fitzhugh, 83.
“mild curse” and “the anarchist. . . can think of”: Zindel, 5.
“told of the day. . . on the scrotum”: Patron, 1.
“With One Word. . . Uproar” and “The inclusion of the word. . . in children’s books”: Bosman, “One Word.”
“The most moral book I have written” and “What is most incomprehensible. . . that he swears” and “The most poignant. . . loved your book anyway’”: Naylor.
“to get Terabithia . . . school library”: Quoted in West, 5.
“I have a feeling. . . my theory is wrong”: Ibid.
“Do you blog with it?” “Can it tweet?” “It’s a book,” and “It’s a book, jackass!”: Smith.
“Of all my books. . . visible of my books”: Quoted in West.
“Bah, patriotism. . . enough of it”: Collier, 149.
According to a School . . . one school curriculum: Staino.
“Turkey is a largely. . . told to children”: Ibid.
“The publication. . . American publishers”: Quoted in Marcus, Minders, 193.
“It takes great. . . Two Reds” and “Or to publish one”: Ibid.
“tapeworms. . . consuming me”: Anonymous, 169.
“She saw herself. . . pulled from shelves”: Hopkins.
who insists that. . . young adult audience: Sutton, “Judy Blume,” 26.
“Forever was passed. . . one by one”: red.
“The clandestine copy. . . a defining moment”: Larsen.
“Ah, fourth grade. . . reading class”: Kelly.
“One of my friends. . . book on our own” and “I think that Judy. . . work and last forever”: Marquetta.
“I believe that. . . considered dangerous”: Blume.
“In presenting this award. . . finds a first love”: Young Adult Library Services Association.
“No one uses. . . with the equipment”: Quoted in Barry.
“When I heard. . . to my gratification”: Guardian.
“because they think. . . someone else”: Quoted in Bald, 86.
“with gross, degrading. . . vastly more numerous”: Bader, 538.
“amusing undoubtedly to. . . being laughed at”: Hughes, 50.
“I did not feel. . . at those pictures”: Lester.
“probably selected. . . could have chosen”: NPR.
“PC or not to be?” Lanes, Looking Glass, 177.
“because she was. . . mother there”: Konigsburg 1972, 56.
‘Negro’ is changed to ‘black’: Konigsburg 2007, 56.
“canonized as a. . . grown-ups)”: Nel, “Huckleberry Finn.”
“I’m by no means. . . stories stand alone” and “I think authors’ . . . talk about in teaching it”: Quoted in Bosman, “Publisher.”
“provoke and unsettle” and “Margaret Wise. . . Goodnight Moon”: Nelson.
“Maybe we shouldn’t. . . Sometimes, it’s ugly”: Quoted in Hudson.
“they don’t require. . . Aunt Sally”: Fishkin.
“Huck is no Simon. . . the good guys”: Sutton, “Stage Manager.”
“horrified” and “That’s Not Twain”: Editorial, New York Times.
“People should be. . . sense of offensiveness”: Nel, “Huckleberry Finn.”
“We are of course opposed. . . generation of readers” and “Revising another author’s. . . we took lightly”: Lofting, xi.
“remarkable”: Griswold, xii.
“No person of color has been president”: St. George, 43.
“On the one hand. . . Caldecott Medal”: Sutton, “And Someday.”
“When my mother. . . like them”: Lawson, Strong and Good, 31.
“When my father. . . called him Dick”: Ibid., 32.
“large packing cases with holes in them”: Dahl, 71.
“from the very deepest. . . . ever been before”: Ibid., 73.
Eleanor Cameron complained. . . slaves in a new land: Cameron.
“real Nazi stuff” and “They thought I was. . . crossed my mind”: Quoted in Sturrock, 493.
“bilious yellow skin and slit and slanted eyes”: Quoted in Lanes, Looking Glass, 185.
“there seems to me. . . Five Chinese Brothers”: Ibid., 188.
“[Seattle] was speaking. . . or the environment” and “As she has changed. . . the right people!”: Oyate.
“One of my pet peeves. . . do, and badly” and “This particular. . . I yelled”: Perkins, interview.
“You look. . . Just like. . . just to prove it”: Perkins, Sunita Experiment, 179.
“HOLY BLUNDERS. . . letters from readers”, and “I almost bawled. . . I definitely did”: Perkins, interview.
“You look. . . Just like. . . just to prove it”: Perkins, Not-So-Star-Spangled, 176.
“What a lesson! . . . of a reissue”: Perkins, interview.
“Beneath the palm-tree. . . mighty welcome”: Travers, Mary Poppins, 92.
“Remember. . . not as important” and “[f]ormal English. . . a formal English”: Quoted in Schwartz, 135.
“We’ve been anticipating. . . welcome as sunlight”: Ibid., 136–137.
“Eskimo with a spear. . . a tomahawk”: Travers, Mary Poppins, 100.
“full of revenge” and “racist nightmare. . . white child”: Schwartz, 137.
“He belonged. . . England with her”: Travers, Friend Monkey, 60–61.
“two historical periods. . . aspect of pioneering”: Spaeth, Writers, 376.
“We have no books. . . should write one”: Newman, 31.
“obscene and vulgar,” “a dangerous and. . . protected,” and “decaying the minds of children”: Quoted in Green and Karolides, 137.
“Being gay is just one more kind of love”: Willhoite, 28.
“Burned! . . . Nazis burn books”: Quoted in Jenkins, 49.
“During my testimony. . . other way around!”: Garden, interview.
Behind-the-Scenes Interlude: Some Hidden Delights of Children’s Literature
“Gotcha!” Quoted in Kingman, 264.
“gratuitous” and “Disney paper doll”: Kirkus.
“Virginia. . . 1776”: Fritz, 43.
“My astigmatism. . . very nice” and “That’s dirty. . . Schart Hyman”: Quoted in School Library Journal, 9.
“[I]n view of the fact. . . in this form”: Ibid.
“It certainly escaped. . . would never condone”: Ibid., 10.
“I am so happy. . . Gotcha!” Quoted in Kingman, 264.
“You have to make. . . with our work”: Steptoe.
“I memorize. . . that afternoon”: Tusa.
“I miss him. What a genius he was”: Hurd.
“Trina. . . was a sharp-eyed. . . the wicked queen”: Yolen.
“The story spoke. . . into that book”: Hyman, 296.
“The people in. . . through my hand, ” “albeit rather idealized and prettified,” and “an astonishingly accurate portrait”: Ibid.
“He’s a prince. . . . she’d been through”: Ibid., 297.
“She used to tell. . . prince to me”: Yolen.
“found a particular. . . morosely into a drink”: Ibid.
“extremely ugly” and “great big teeth. . . . sweaty foreheads”: Sendak, Questions, 265.
“I wanted my. . . Jewish relatives”: Quoted in Lanes, 88.
“Acknowledgments to Dickie Birkenbush”: Burton, 39.
“My father had. . . familiar with it”: Sullivan.
“This blunder. . . was furious”: DiTerlizzi.
“and it was still hot”: Sendak, Wild Things, 39.
“[It] turned into. . . and I won” and “dopey. . . . Unemotional. . . book is ‘hot’“: Quoted in Setoodeh.
“When I got home. . . Valley of the Shadow’”: Quoted in Neumeyer, 163.
Kids Love ’Em, Critics Hate ’Em. . . And Vice Versa
“Not recommended for purchase by expert”: Lepore, 67.
“Practices of publishers. . . for oncoming books”: Kensinger, 20.
“the threat to young readers posed by the pulps”: Scharnhorst, 119.
“S. S. Green. . . School of Cambridge”: Ibid.
“Reading only. . . sea-animals or plants”: Dodge, 360.
“Stratemeyer put two. . . to other writers”: Billman, 21–22.
“Nancy’s abilities certainly. . . follows her adventures”: Mason, 52.