I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

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

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.

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