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

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

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

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.