If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

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

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

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

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

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

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.