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.

Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

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

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

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

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.