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.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

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

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

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

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.