For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

All literature is political.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.