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

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.

Children want to do what grownups do.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

I read my books aloud before they were published.