A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. - C.S. Lewis
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretense. - Orson Scott Card
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. - Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. - Maurice Sendak