All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt. [...] The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.