I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

Children want to do what grownups do.

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.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

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.