As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.