After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.