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

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

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 have very little patience with children.

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.