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.

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

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

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

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