“Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don’t get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.” ---Chris Raschka

“To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.” ---P.T. Barnum

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” ---Tom Lehrer

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” --Joyce Meyer

“A school library is like the Bat Cave: it’s a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.” Tom Angleberger

“Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a unicorn to ride about the town.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.” Robert Brault

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” Martin Buber

“Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice, but the end will always be Candy Castle.” Jack Barakat

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others are bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.” ----Robert Fulghum