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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
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