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

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

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

Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.