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I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.

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I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, 'Oh boy, I should not be here.' Obviously, I didn't win.

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Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program at your library and how many of you know it's free?' Spreading that sort of message comes very naturally to me.

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It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.

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Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all of those things I can remember very clearly. We so often forget how big all these things are for very small children because they are so often trying these things for the first time.

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How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It's not something you send your kids off to do, 'Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or else.' It becomes a task then.

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It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

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I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

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Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

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I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 25th, 1964

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