Noelle Stevenson

I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had.

American Artist

Jon Hamm

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

American Actor

Alicia Sacramone

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

American Athlete

Xavier Woods

Wrestling is a never-ending storybook, so sometimes you start going one direction, but the beauty of it is we could go in whatever direction we want, but things just changed.

American Wrestler

Cobie Smulders

When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook closes.

Canadian Actress

Patty Duke

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

American Actress

Gerrit Cole

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

Jesse Andrews

You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.

American Novelist

Om Malik

Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.

Indian Writer

Jesse Williams

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

Storybooks often feature magical, adventurous, or morally instructive themes suited for young imaginations.

Common Themes

Storybooks can introduce children to cultural heritage and traditional stories from around the world.

Cultural Significance

Storybooks are typically richly illustrated to engage children's visual interest along with the text.

Illustrated Pages

Describing something as 'storybook' implies it's idealized or perfect, like a fairytale.

Positive Connotations

Using 'storybook' can evoke strong positive emotions, suggesting happiness and satisfaction.

Emotional Impact

Remember, 'storybook' can imply an unrealistic level of perfection not often found in real life.

Not Realistic

 stand by me my parents stories taught me a lot about the kind of person I wanted to be but until now I had always known the characters in those tales as storybook heroes and heroines frozen in time I had grown up and I struggled to recognize

40 Years Later, A Family...

 many prisoners wanted to stay in contact with their children. And so, armed with a few storybooks, she began to help prisoners to read and record stories to send home to their children. It wasn't a new idea. Few ideas like this are new.

How storytelling helps...

 and the uk is no exception an iconic species made famous from the wind in the willow storybook as the character ratty the watervol is in serious trouble once found across the uk it's estimated that in recent years