Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
Children want to do what grownups do.
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!