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.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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.

Children want to do what grownups do.

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

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.