If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is… — 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. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share
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
