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• One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered…
• I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
• I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
• Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
• Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
• I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited…
• Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My…
• All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
• I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
• I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid…
• I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want…
• I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

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