Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

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.

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

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

I have very little patience with children.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.