“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

“The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!”

“Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.”

“You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug”

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .”

“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you”

“The kid moved, and Judith dropped her lunch tray on the table and took her seat. "Would you like to swap lunches?" she asked me. "Yours looks so much better than mine."I was holding a mashed-up tunafish sand-wich. "This?" I asked, waving it. Half the tunafish fell out of the soggy bread."Yum!" Judith exclaimed. "Want my pizza, Sam? Here. Take it." She slid her tray in front of me. "You bring great lunches. I wish my mum packed lunches like yours."I could see Cory staring at me , his eyes wide with disbelief.I really couldn't believe it, either. All Judith wanted from the world was to be exactly like me!”