Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

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

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.