Don't Worry About Writing A Book Or

Perhaps It Is Partly That We Need To Love Books Ourselves As Parents, Grandparents And Teachers In Order To Pass On That Passion For Stories To Our Children. It's Not About Testing And Reading Schemes, But About Loving Stories And Passing On That Passion To Our Children.

I Don't Know, But I Do Think That Everyone Has A Story To Tell. The Question Is, Can They Find The Voice And The Confidence To Tell It? We Lack The Encouragement As Young People To Believe This; We Very Often Think That Writing Is For Clever People, Which It Isn't.

Anything That Gets Children Reading Is Fine.

One Of The Great Failings Of Our Education System Is That We Tend To Focus On Those Who Are Succeeding In Exams, And There Are Plenty Of Them. But What We Should Also Be Looking At, And A Lot More Urgently, Is Those Who Fail.

We're Much Alike, Bee, You And Me," I Said. "you May Carry Your Pack Underneath You And Your Rifle May Stick Out Of Your Bottom. But You And Me, Bee, Are Much Alike.