I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It’s their children I love.
ENID BLYTONSoon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them – but let’s hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we’re men and women.
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I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’ ‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.
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They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
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You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
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The children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
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They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.
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Never lose that honesty, Bobby – always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly – and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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