We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

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

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

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

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

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