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

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

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.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

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

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