Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

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

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

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

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 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.