I Like To Read Fiction Best And

I'm Lucky That So Many Children Visit My Website. At Least I Get To Talk With Them That Way.

I Fell In Love With Books At The Elizabeth Public Library When I Was Four.

Let Children Read Whatever They Want And Then Talk About It With Them. If Parents And Kids Can Talk Together, We Won't Have As Much Censorship Because We Won't Have As Much Fear.

It Didn't Happen In The 70s. So I Had A Whole Decade When I Was Writing These Books And Maybe There Was A Little Bit Here Or There But There Was No Big Effort To Ban Books.

If No One Speaks Out For [young Readers], If They Don’t Speak Out For Themselves, All They’ll Get For Required Reading Will Be The Most Bland Books Available. Instead Of Finding The Information They Need At The Library, Instead Of Finding Novels That Illuminate Life, They Will Find Only Those Materials To Which Nobody Could Possibly Object... In This Age Of Censorship I Mourn The Loss Of Books That Will Never Be Written, I Mourn The Voices That Will Be Silenced — Writers’ Voices, Teachers’ Voices, Students’ Voices — And All Because Of Fear.