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

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

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

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

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!

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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.