You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

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

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?