I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It’s about the story. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
I’m one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you’ve got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
If a child wants to read ‘Twilight’ over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged – the important thing is to get them reading in the first place. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
Being the Children’s Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun. Malorie Blackman Read Quote