Words matter. These are the best Patricia Polacco Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I used to say to my bubbe, ‘Bubbe, is this story true?’ And she’d say, ‘Of course it’s true! But it may not have happened.’ What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it – did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it’s true.
I wasn’t a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, ‘Wow, you can really draw.’ Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
I don’t know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn’t start writing children’s books until I was 41 years old.
Now, I’ve got to tell you: ‘In Our Mothers House,’ I don’t think is for a kindergartner.
When you come from a family of storytellers, you’re doomed. You just have to tell stories.
All of us have a ‘voice’ inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.
My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
I don’t believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that’s not the best example. But your eyes!
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
