I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies.

Dear Lady Gaga , thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart!

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

So many things that you can ask children hopefully pique their interest and they can design and think for themselves. Having children draw and illustrate what they saw in their minds' eyes during the story is a tremendous teaching aid.