When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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