Katherine Paterson Quote

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.


Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children (ed. Dutton Juvenile, 1981)


Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.