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“an annual event. . . and his ilk”: Eddy, 30.
“Superintendent. . . Public Library”: Bader, 520.
“In short order. . . Mahony Miller)”: Ibid., 521.
“in the late nineteenth. . . knowledge of children”: Eddy, 6.
“advocated the recruitment. . . care for children” and “are often the. . . a children’s room”: Ibid., 34.
“I suppose that’s. . . to know something!”: Ibid., 76.
“In 1926 . . . Edward Stratemeyer”: Marcus, Minders, 105.
“Art flourishes. . . as weakness”: Miller, 175.
“I think what people. . . no coddler”: Sutton, “Kirkus.”
“born”: Quoted in Neumeyer, xxiii.
“Mrs. Frederick C. Little’s second son arrived”: E. B. White, 1.
“God damn it. . . had him adopted”: Quoted in Neumeyer, xxiii.
“I’m very sorry. . . Wilder award”: E. B. White Collection.
“I just heard that. . . one word wrong!” Martha White, 564.
she finally read. . . disappointed her more: Lepore.
“hard to take from so masterly a hand”: Moore, 394.
“many believe that. . . adorning the cover”: Silvey, 100 Best, 131.
“affordable, visually. . . ready at hand” and “librarian critics. . . anger was palpable”: Marcus, Golden, 58.
“more than 90 . . . comics a month”: Nyberg, 1.
“From the outset. . . physical well-being”: Ibid., viii.
“to publish comics. . . who read them”: Ibid., 165.
decided to print. . . Book Review: Jordan; Wersba.
“not to Blume’s. . . inexpressive speech”: Landsberg, 207.
“triviality of her. . . her English”: Rees, 175.
“while Stine’s. . . far from glowing”: Jones, xxi–xxii.
“He is not just. . . All Media”: Ibid., xxi.
“It’s another one of those. . . horribly popular”: Roy.
“It’s just a relationship. . . the other takes”: Lingeman.
“are contradictory. . . his beard”: Kimmel, 877.
“I’ll love you forever and like you for always”: Munsch, Love You, 4.
“You may adore. . . is fast asleep”: Yolen.
Munsch wrote the story. . . two miscarriages: Munsch website.
“Good or bad. . . beautiful book”: Tankard.
“I loved it. . . our humanity”: Nye.
“I am passionate. . . was happy”: Grover.
“Reading The Giving Tree . . . from parents”: Snyder.
“I reread. . . have cats”: Smith.
“When I was younger. . . meet other trees”: Vernon.
“I find The Giving . . . is missing”: Gantos.
“I often wonder. . . get some help?”: Elliott.
“Really, I just. . . Darwin Award”: Salas.
“The cats nestle. . . to sleep”: Mansbach, 4.
“Has the most prestigious. . . of its luster?”: Silvey, “Newbery,” 39.
“Book critics. . . forgettable books’”: Ibid., 40.
“all wet”: Sutton, “Gold.”
“In my experience. . . by this award”: Lindsay.
“a waste of. . . reading skills”: Gerhardt, 42.
“chainsaw massacres. . . to cure”: Pollack, 45.
And to Think That I Saw It on Hollywood Boulevard: The Celebrity Children’s Book Craze
“I’m getting out. . . music out there”: Yolen.
“now prefers. . . and racketeering”: Preston.
“I found her. . . speak to freely”: Fox, 210.
“She is crazy. . . a psychopath”: Staino.
“[I]f you’re an actor. . . star in movies”: Danielson, 2008.
“When Madonna. . . pop music out there”: Yolen.
“It is plain as day. . . credit the co-creator” and “In an already touchy. . . benefit of the doubt”: Denos.
“find another medium for girl power”: Quoted in Herald Scotland.
“We are really great. . . very seriously”: Quoted in Us Weekly.
“[T]he average story. . . insipid the text”: Jenkins.
“Rule one. . . flowery days”: Pilkington.
“[M]ake sure you have. . . young readers”: Ibid.
“morality divorced from wonder” and “chilling legalism or priggish sentimentality”: Paterson, 21.
“Celebrity-written picture books. . . I cannot say”: Sutton.
“and they struggle. . . a sugar pill”: Sendak.
“[M]any times with. . . right buyout” and “This is another ugly. . . imagery’s usage”: Denos.
“I understand the anti-celebrity-book. . . means everything”: Ibid.
“I was offered a nice sum of. . . projects I took on” and “On the one hand. . . into the hands of kids”: Armstrong.
“Every once in a while. . . will continue to play”: Roxburgh.
“more than an act. . . experience”: Lindsay.
“If you don’t know. . . invented the word”: Reed, 114.
“Before the new Trek movie. . . Dinner was on the house”: Michelson.
“Sometimes I comb my hair with a fork”: Brenner, 1996.
“What is the title. . . Kay Thompson’s Eloise”: Brenner, “Kay.”
“Normally advances to celebrity. . . for celebrity books” and “which necessarily means. . . costly to a company”: Anonymous publishing executive.
“This discussion is a. . . launch the book” and “all you have to do. . . have a bestseller”: Roxburgh.
Daniel Hade has pointed out. . . television or movies: Hade.
“the question then. . . even with a win”: Anonymous publishing executive.
“Celebs, unless. . . kind of cheesy”: Anonymous editor.
“I think being a money. . . afraid of these qualities”: Anonymous literary agent.
“the prospect of doing. . . quickly all in”: Ibid.
“Only the rarest. . . for the young”: Quoted in Frederick, 45.
“a literary evening”: Plimpton, 333.
“‘the writer from Philadelphia’”: Ibid., 334.
“At Elaine’s, there is. . . I know.’”: Ibid., 334–335.
“Children hate. . . sold short”: Quoted in Silvey, 70.
“Whatever fears. . . almost too lovable”: Quoted in Swann, 128.
“Not all readers. . . live and let live”: Armstrong.
“An exchange happens. . . disadvantage of the child,” “Someone like. . . normal to them,” and “pornification”: Craig.
“[Publishers] fail to see. . . books themselves tawdry”: Ibid.
“I’m not against anyone. . . are getting sidelined”: Quoted in Walker.
“So, welcome, Jay. . . Go get ’em, kids!” Scieszka.
Behind-the-Scenes Interlude: Sex and Death
“If people weren’t interested. . . need children’s books”: Quoted in Lanes, 130.
“but because they. . . of life”: Quoted in Draper and Koralek, 179.
“‘Well, father. . . out of the room”: Ibid., 181.
“deep in an ecstasy of love”: Quoted in Lawson, 75.
“The clip clip. . . God!”: Ibid., 75–76.
“millions and billions and trillions of cats”: Gág, 7.
“Her life revolved. . . reverse order”: Winnan, 1.
“Two men. . . him get there”: Ibid., 217.
“My Youri has. . . totally neglected”: Ibid., 224.
“If you join. . . afraid of murder”: Quoted in Conant, 30.
“I think he slept. . . dollars a year”: Quoted in Treglown, 59.
“I am all fucked. . . three goddam nights”: Ibid., 60.
“Roald, did you. . . got to do”: Quoted in Conant, 120–121.
“a sometimes appealing. . . of his life”: Kirkus.
“Our kids love Harold”: Andrews, 2.
“I inherited. . . writing children’s books”: Ibid., 5.
“The Berenstain Bears. . . but not anymore”: The
Onion.
“opposite sex becomes overt”: Berenstain.
"worn down to. . . mother at night”: Littell and Littell, 484.
“living beneath. . . family sorrow”: Ainger.
“one of their. . . Elizabethan poetry”: Ibid.
“One night just about. . . have known better”: Wilder, “Pioneer.”
“There were Kate Bender. . . own conclusions why”: Wilder and Lane, 221–222.
“Bob McCloskey could. . . that was worse’”: Quoted in Schmidt, McCloskey, 77.
“a most unhappy ending for the ducklings” and “and why, when. . . in this book”: Schmidt, interview.
“She says Margaret. . . biological mother?”: Quoted in Prager.
“It’s the kind of thing that would have come out”: Ibid.
“If it wasn’t. . . homeless person”: Ibid.
“Consuelo, my wife. . . January 44”: Quoted in Chabalier.
“9/6/44 . . . yourself for me”: Ibid.
From Mainstream to Wall Street: Children’s Books in a Post-Potter World
“My God, Max. . . with his mother!” Quoted in Zarin, 42.
“For many in the publishing. . . basement apartment”: Bolonik.
“I’ve always looked at. . . books get it, too”: Ibid.
“Just because adults. . . book for children”: Ibid.
“It’s our responsibility. . . peers to do it”: Patterson.
“pretend. . . it was no. . . way or another”: Quoted in Collins.
“The real difference. . . worth a darn”: Quoted in Flood.
“What kind of a world. . . under whose mattress?” Sutton, 8.
“They are limited to. . . no voice at all”: Quoted in Hegedus.
“each format will. . . well they should”: Marcus.
“I feel too sad. . . on hold indefinitely”: Meyer, Midnight.
“When he reentered. . . people like him’”: Kahn, 86.
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