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.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

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.

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

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

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.