I never thought of being a writer. It happened by chance with an encounter (and now long-time friendship) with another author, Jane Yolen, that I discovered my joy in writing for children. I love my audience. I love how children are free from "bad philosophy", how the geography of childhood has no obstacles, borders, or frontiers. Children are wide-eyed travelers - every book is an adventure to which they come open-minded and excited. Their world is straight forward to the horizon.

I write for children because I love and admire their honesty. You can't fool them. And so, I hope, we who do write for them must be honest with ourselves, not fool ourselves.

I listen to them. Many of my books have grown out of remarks made by my grandchildren or those that my own children made many years ago, or an incident long ago committed to memory. So many aspects of our lives go into our books.

I am ever-ready to take a child's hand and enter his/her world. And I am grateful to them, for I have been profoundly enriched by these journeys.

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New!

The World Invisible has been republished by White River Press.

A Spanish edition of Fireflies for Nathan is forthcoming from McGraw-Hill publishing.

Rescuing Einstein's Compass is mentioned in Walter Isaacson's new book on Einstein.

 

Unpublished Stories

Hitchhikers
Sophie's Nanawatch
The Best Presents of All
I Won't Forget Today

 

Stories from Cricket magazine

The Cave of the Oilbird
Yaja
My Old House
What if Cars chased Dogs?
Kingbird
Loo