If She Can't Spell, Why Is She

I Don't Necessarily Start With The Beginning Of The Book. I Just Start With The Part Of The Story That's Most Vivid In My Imagination And Work Forward And Backward From There.

I Hope Children Will Be Happy With The Books I've Written, And Go On To Be Readers All Of Their Lives.

If We Finished Our Work, The Teacher Would Say, 'now Don't Read Ahead.' But Sometimes I Hid The Book I Was Reading Behind My Geography Book And Did Read Ahead. You Can Hide A Lot Behind A Geography Book.

One Rainy Sunday When I Was In The Third Grade, I Picked Up A Book To Look At The Pictures And Discovered That Even Though I Did Not Want To, I Was Reading. I Have Been A Reader Ever Since.

I Feel Sometimes That In Children's Books There Are More And More Grim Problems, But I Don't Know That I Want To Burden Third- And Fourth-graders With Them.