Joan Aiken Quote

Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way — with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

The Way to Write for Children (1982)

Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way — with new ideas,...

Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way — with new ideas,...

Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way — with new ideas,...

Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way — with new ideas,...