I Had A Non-existent Knowledge Of Queen Victoria's Early Years. Like Everyone Else, I Thought Of Her As An Old Lady Dressed In Black. My Mom Had Told Me About Her, Though, That She Had A Very Loving Relationship With Albert, That They Had Lots Of Kids, And That He Died Young.
As We Get Older, We Tend To Become More Risk Averse Because We Tend To Find Reasons Why Things Won't Work. When You Are A Kid, You Think Everything Is Possible, And I Think With Creativity It Is So Important To Keep That Naivety.
Kids Should Read Whatever They Want To Read. So I'm Hoping That Just Like 15-year-olds Read "summer Sisters," I'm Hoping That They'll Read This.
I Know Where "blubber" Came From. It Came From Stories That My Daughter Told Me When She Came Home From Fifth Grade. There Was A Kid In The Class Who Was Being Bullied. We Didn't Even Call It Bullying Then, That's What's So Weird. Victimization In The Classroom. The Word Bully Was So Out, Was So Not In Use For All Those Years And Now It's Back Big Time.
The Parent Reads The Book. The Kid Reads The Book And Then They Can Talk About The Characters Instead Of Talking About Themselves. You Know There's A Connection Even If You Don't Talk About It When You Read The Same Books.
I've Never Really Thought In Terms Of Taboos. I Think That Books Can Really Help Parents And Kids Talk Together About Difficult Subjects. I've Always Felt That Way.
I Am A Big Defender Of 'harry Potter,' And I Think Any Book That Gets Kids To Read Are Books That We Should Cherish, We Should Be Thankful For Them.
I Still Get Angry When Older People Assume That Everyone In My Generation, Screws Around. They're Probably The Same Ones Who Think All Kids Use Dope. It's True That We Are More Open Than Our Parents But That Just Means We Accept Sex And Talk About It. It Doesn't Mean We Are All Jumping Into Bed Together.
I Would Make Up [theodor] Seuss-like Books At Night When I Was Cleaning Up From The Dinner, You Know, Putting These Little Kids To Bed, Reading Them Rhyming Books. And So That's What I Started Doing. They Were Really Bad. I Have Some In A Box And It Says On The Box, It's A Note To My Kids You Know, When I Die, If You Ever Publish These I Will Come Back And Haunt You.
[when I Was A Kid] I Was A Surgeon, Amputating Legs And Arms Of My Paper Dolls. And I Had A Little Board With Little Tacks That I Would Tack Them Down To Do This.
Something Awful Happens To A Person Who Grows Up As A Creative Kid And Suddenly Finds No Creative Outlet As An Adult.
