David Small Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• By the time that book So You Want to Be President? came along, we had already had enough presidents that had shown us that presidents are human beings. So I felt I was contributing to the common knowledge there, but not revealing anything really new - sort of supporting what everybody already was suspicious of.

  David Small

  Book, President, Common

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.

  David Small

  Humorous, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of kids who relate to my story. They also relate to the fact that I got out of it. And I tell them that my refuge from all that was books - the library was my safe place. And the art room was my safe place because there I knew what I was doing.

  David Small

  Art, Book, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

  David Small

  Children, Book, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

• What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experience. And it's not a very easy task; you can't find stories that work that way too much of the time.

  David Small

  Book, Kids, Parent

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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