I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's...
The literature of America should reflect the children of America.
A lot of children's literature beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't...
But how had he died? Zoe knew that Gingernut was very young, even in hamster years. Could this be a hamster murder? she wondered. But what kind of person would want to murder a defenseless little...
To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not
You scared my pants off!
It's over! said Max, and he sent the monsters to bed without dinner. And Max, the king of all monsters, felt lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him more than anyone else. Then, from the other...
Bing! Bing who? Bing down the house! Knock knock! Who's there? Zany! Zany
A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. You want to be careful with those, Ron warned Harry. When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...