When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it.… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say,… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
