With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

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.

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.