8 Quotes & Sayings By Patricia Polacco

Patricia Polacco has been a full-time illustrator for more than twenty-five years. Her children’s book illustrations have won numerous awards, including the Caldecott Honor, the National Book Award, and the Newbery Honor. She has received four Caldecott Honors, four Newbery Honors, two Coretta Scott King Awards for Illustration, two Margaret MacMillan Awards for Illustration, three Parents’ Choice Awards, an American Booksellers Association Award of Excellence, five Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, an Association of Illustrators Gold Medal Award, six Children's Choice Book Awards, The International Reading Association’s Children’s Choice Award, and twenty-one Parents’ Choice awards. Dr Read more

Seuss said Polacco is “a wonderful artist with a wonderful eye.” Critic Lynne Cherry wrote: "Polacco can do it all: create lively scenes and characters who leap off the pages; tell the story through humor and pathos; and engage both young and older readers."

You were born with the power to change others. You...
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You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart. Patricia Polacco
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Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence! Patricia Polacco
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Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed. Patricia Polacco
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories. Patricia Polacco
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well! Patricia Polacco
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! Patricia Polacco
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings. Patricia Polacco