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1. Walt Disney

° All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

° Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

° I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

° If you can dream it, you can do it.

° There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Love: ALL

8.6

2. Oscar Wilde

° A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

° Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

° Everything popular is wrong.

° The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

° Who, being loved, is poor?

Love: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket

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3. Charles Dickens

° A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

° I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

° There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Love: The Adventures of Oliver Twist, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities

4. Hugh Lofting

° There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

° The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Love: Doctor Dolittle, Noisy Nora

8.9

5. L. Frank Baum

° Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

° Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Love: Oz books

8.1

6. Enid Blyton

° A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

° I'm not spoiled, just well taken care of.

Love: The Famous Five series

8.2

7. C. S. Lewis

° Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

° Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Love: The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy

9.4

8. Hans Christian Andersen

° Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

° Where words fail, music speaks.

° "But the Emperor has nothing on at all!" said a little child.

Love: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, The Red Shoes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Wild Swans

8.6

9. Jacob Grimm

° I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better.
Amy Tan

Love: The Twelve Brothers, Hansel and Gretel, Town Musicians of Bremen, Little Red Riding Hood

8.7

10. Wilhelm Grimm

° In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
Francis Ford Coppola

Love: The Twelve Brothers, Hansel and Gretel, Town Musicians of Bremen, Little Red Riding Hood

8.4

11. Mark Twain

° Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

° Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

° It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

° My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

° What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Love: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper

8.6

12. Jules Verne

° Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Love: Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, Family Without a Name, From the Earth to the Moon

8.6

13. Alexandre Dumas

° All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

° Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Love: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Queen's Necklace, The Countess de Charny, Robin Hood, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine

8.7

14. Antoine De Saint-Exupery

° Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

° It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

° The one thing that matters is the effort.

Love: The Little Prince; Night Flight; Wind, Sand and Stars

15. Wilhelm Busch

° Becoming a father isn't difficult, but it's very difficult to be a father.

Love: Max und Moritz (Croatian: Čepko i Čupko)

16. Bozena Nemcova

She was born as Barbora Pankel in Vienna, the daughter of Johann Pankel from Lower Austria and Teresie Novotná, a maid of Bohemian origin. In her childhood she lived in the village of Ratibořice, where her grandmother Magdalena Novotná played an important part in her life. Němcová would later write her most famous novel with the main character inspired by her grandmother.

Love: Slovenské pohádky a pověsti (My grandmother's side of the family was originally from Czechoslovakia so I partly grew up on Czechoslovak Fairy Tales.)

9.5

17. Ivana Brlic Mazuranic

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.

It was in 1913 when her book The Marvelous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice (also known as The Brave Adventures of Lapitch and Čudnovate zgode i nezgode šegrta Hlapića) was published that really caught the literary public's eye. In the story, the poor apprentice Hlapić searches for his master's daughter as his luck turns for the better.

Brlić-Mažuranić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times - in 1931 and 1935 she was nominated by the historian Gabriel Manojlović, and in 1937 and 1938 he was joined by the philosopher Albert Bazala, both based in Zagreb. In 1937 she also became the first woman accepted as a Corresponding Member into the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. She died on 21 September 1938 in Zagreb.

Love: The Brave Adventures of Lapitch (Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića), Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), Gingerbread Heart (Srce od licitara), Fables and Fairy-tales (Basne i bajke)

18. Mato Lovrak

Mato Lovrak was a Croatian writer.

Love: Družba Pere Kvržice, Vlak u snijegu, Neprijatelj broj 1

19. Ivan Kusan

Ivan Kušan (August 30, 1933 – November 20, 2012) was a Croatian writer.

He published his first book in 1956. His specialty became children's novels, and some of them, like Lažeš, Melita and Koko u Parizu, became very popular.

Kušan published four short story collections and fifteen novels, but he is best known for his children books. He wrote one short story collection, Strašni kauboj consisting of 30 stories usually 5-10 pages long. Other children books are eight novels. His most famous book is Koko u Parizu. It has been adapted for a theater play and a film.

Love: Uzbuna na Zelenom Vrhu, Koko i duhovi, Zagonetni dječak, Lažeš Melita, Koko u Parizu, Ljubav ili smrt

20. Zijah Sokolovic

Zijah Sokolovic Zike was born in Sarajevo. In 1978 he got degree both on Sarajevo Drama Academy and Sarajevo University (in dramaturgy). That same year he wrote and directed "Glumac je glumac je glumac", monodrama about his acting experiences. The show was big success that led to the movies and TV (including very popular children's shows).

Refused to play part in Emir Kusturica's Underground because he thought that the movie authors intended to justify Serbs in the Balkan conflict.

One of bedtime stories

Love: his voice.. I had audio tapes with bedtime stories that have lulled me when I was a kid.. His voice always reminds me on that time..