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.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

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.

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

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.

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