Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.