I Just Wrote About Childhood

I Write In Longhand On Yellow Legal Pads.

My Mother Would Read Aloud To My Father And Me In The Evening. She Read Mainly Travel Books.

If She Can't Spell, Why Is She A Librarian? Librarians Should Know How To Spell.

I Feel Sometimes That In Children's Books There Are More And More Grim Problems, But I Don't Know That I Want To Burden Third- And Fourth-graders With Them.

Ramona Stepped Back Into Her Closet, Slid The Door Shut, Pressed An Imaginary Button, And When Her Imaginary Elevator Had Made Its Imaginary Descent, Stepped Out Onto The Real First Floor And Raced A Real Problem. Her Mother And Father Were Leaving For Parents' Night.