If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.