hope your birthday is hot hot hot

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.