Any Story You Write About War, Or

Any Problem Can Be Solved Between People If Only They Can Trust Each Other

A Lot Of Children, Like I Did, Move Away From Words Because Of The Fear - Which Is Something You Have To Take Out Of Education: The Fear Of Worrying About What Marks You'll Get, Detention, Worrying About Letting People Down, Your Parents, Teachers.

But Try As I Might, I Never Got To Eat Any Of Her Pastries, And Do You Know, She Never Even Offered Me One.

Our Great Problem, Is That Children Now Know Whatever They Want To Know - At The Press Of A Button They Can Discover All Horrors Of The Adult World. They Know Very Early On That The World Is Sometimes A Very Dark, Difficult And Complex Place, And The Literature They Read Must Reflect That. Otherwise We're Just Entertaining Them To Pass The Time.

There's A Mouse In Here With Me. He's Sitting There In The Light Of The Lamp, Looking Up At Me. He Seems As Surprised To See Me As I Am To See Him. There He Goes. I Can Hear Him Still, Scurrying About Somewhere Under The Hayrick. I Think He's Gone Now. I Hope He Comes Back. I Miss Him Already.