Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

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

Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.