Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

Teeth are always in style.

All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day