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

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

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

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.