Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.