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With Twins, Reading Aloud To Them Was The Only Chance I Could Get To Sit Down. I Read Them Picture Books Until They Were Reading On Their Own.

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.

I Feel Sometimes That In Children's Books There Are More And More Grim Problems, But I Don't Know That I Want To Burden Third- And Fourth-graders With Them.

Children Should Learn That Reading Is Pleasure, Not Just Something That Teachers Make You Do In School.

Today I Discovered Two Kinds Of People Who Go To High School: Those Who Wear New Clothes To Show Off On The First Day, And Those Who Wear Their Oldest Clothes To Show They Think School Is Unimportant.