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.

I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

Children want to do what grownups do.

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

I read my books aloud before they were published.

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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.