A story helps folks …

Talent is like electricity… Electricity makes no judgment.

Our concern for the future …

Some of my earliest memories are of World War II, at least World War II from the comfort and safety of my Midwestern home.

Before you know what kindness really is …

Writing is like a love affair

Once I began to read

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime ..

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams

I spend very little time looking back over my career as a children’s writer, a career that is stretching toward half a century now. I almost never reread the books I’ve published. I don’t even think about them much except as objects on my shelf that require dusting from time to time.

We are all far from home.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

Every morning, right around 6 a.m., I spring awake. I could stay in bed longer if I wanted to, but I'm done with sleep.

How lovely to think …

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

It’s a story almost as old as our culture. A story so filled with hope, with love, with joy that we set a whole season aside for the telling of it. A story so central to our understanding of ourselves that we seek it out again and again.