One Thing Living In Japan Did For

It Is Not Enough To Simply Teach Children To Read; We Have To Give Them Something Worth Reading. Something That Will Stretch Their Imaginations- Something That Will Help Them Make Sense Of Their Own Lives And Encourage Them To Reach Out Toward People Whose Lives Are Quite Different From Their Own.

Sitting In Cold Wet Britches For An Hour Was No Fun Even In A Magic Kingdom.

Children Have To Have Access To Books, And A Lot Of Children Can't Go To A Store And Buy A Book. We Need Not Only Our Public Libraries To Be Funded Properly And Staffed Properly, But Our School Libraries. Many Children Can't Get To A Public Library, And The Only Library They Have Is A School Library.

My Writing Comes From Ideas That Make A Sound In My Heart.

I Know A Movie And A Book Are Two Different Things And You Are Going Do Different Media In Different Ways. No Author Can Want A Movie To Be Exactly Like The Book Because Then It Will Be A Bad Movie.