I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

Thanksgiving is a big one for our family.

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.