I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

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

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.

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.

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

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