For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.
Rebecca SteadBeautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.
Rebecca SteadWhen something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.
Rebecca SteadI think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.
Rebecca SteadI think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for children but I feel like childhood reading is this magic window and there's something that you sort of carry for the rest of your life when a book has really changed you as a kid, or affected you, or even made you recognize something about yourself.
Rebecca Stead