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L. Frank Baum Quotes about Children

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In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

L. Frank Baum
Beautiful, Children, World
L. Frank Baum (2016). “30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…”, p.2982, e-artnow

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

L. Frank Baum
Dream, Children, Believe
"The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

L. Frank Baum
Children, Men, Civilization
L. Frank Baum (2016). “THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ – Complete Collection: 16 Novels in One Premium Edition (Fantasy Classics Series): The most Beloved Children’s Books about the Adventures in the Magical Land of Oz”, p.1598, e-artnow

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

L. Frank Baum
Sweet, Children, Heart
L. Frank Baum (2008). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

L. Frank Baum
Children, Doors, Perfect
L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

L. Frank Baum
Children, Book, Writing
Personal inscription on a copy of "Mother Goose in Prose", "The Making of the Wizard of Oz", Book by Aljean Harmetz, 1977.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

L. Frank Baum
Children, Taken, Dwarves

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

L. Frank Baum
Children, Entertainment, Morality
BookCaps, L. Frank Baum (2016). “The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

L. Frank Baum
Sweet, Children, Book
Introduction to "The Lost Princess of Oz", 1917.

He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.

L. Frank Baum
Children, Littles, Toys
J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.60, e-artnow

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

L. Frank Baum
Beautiful, Children, Way
L. Frank Baum (2016). “30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…”, p.2982, e-artnow

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