Malorie Blackman Laureate Quotations

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

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