I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

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

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

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

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.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.