Your House Is All About Routine, Not

If You Don't Know Where You're Going, Stop Racing To Get There. -- From Just Desert By M. T. Anderson

I Pore Over Every Word On The Cereal Box At Breakfast, Often More Than Once. You Can Ask Me Anything About Shredded Wheat.

As Much As I'd Like To Meet The Tooth Fairy On An Evening Walk, I Don't Really Believe It Can Happen.

Some People May Contend That There Is No Image More Charming That A Child Holding A Puppy Or Kitten. But For Me That's A Distant Second. When I See A Child Clutching A Book... To His Or Her Tiny Bosom, I'm Moved. Children Can Possess A Book In A Way They Can Never Possess A Video Game, A Tv Show, Or A Darth Vader Doll. A Book Comes Alive When They Read It. They Give It Life Themselves By Understanding It.

The Polar Express Was The Easiest Of My Picture Book Manuscripts To Write... Once I Realized The Train Was Going To The North Pole, Finding The Story Seemed Less Like A Creative Effort Than An Act Of Recollection. I Felt, Like The Storys Narrator, That I Was Remembering Something, Not Making It Up.