I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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.
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People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
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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.
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I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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