top of page
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
Standard
Customized
More

"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs."
Author Name
Personal Development

"With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked."
Author Name
Personal Development

"And say my glory was I had such friends."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"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."
Family

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
Family

"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
Books

"Children want to do what grownups do."
Family

"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."
People

"I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters."
Family

"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
Friendship

"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
Books

"I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind."
Mind

"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
Family
bottom of page