Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

The royal power is the grace to act right.

society has an embarrassing history of denial

Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen.