One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

A good book written for children can be read by adults

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.