Malorie Blackman Children Quotations

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.