I Had A Very Wise Mother. She

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.

I Was An Only Child; I Didn't Have A Sister, Or Sisters.

I Don't Ever Go On The Internet. I Don't Even Know How It Works.

We Didn't Have Television In Those Days, And Many People Didn't Even Have Radios. My Mother Would Read Aloud To My Father And Me In The Evening.

She Was Not A Slowpoke Grownup. She Was A Girl Who Could Not Wait. Life Was So Interesting She Had To Find Out What Happened Next.