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

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

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Children want to do what grownups do.

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.