I Enjoy Writing For Third And Fourth

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.

I Write In Longhand On Yellow Legal Pads.

I Was A Very Observant Child. The Boys In My Books Are Based On Boys In My Neighborhood Growing Up.

In My Grammar School Years Back In The 1920s I Used My Ten-cents-a-week Allowance For Saturday Matinees Of Douglas Fairbanks Movies. All That Swashbuckling And Leaping About In The Midst Of The Sails Of Ships!

I Am Not A Pest," Ramona Quimby Told Her Big Sister Beezus.