Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

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

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