You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.