I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we...

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The fantasy of childhood, amazing optimism .

mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a...

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way

It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts...

Long before we even lose our lives, we lose our souls. Tragic but true. Some carry on—willing to make the sacrifices, putting what is perceived as important before anything else. Some tread into the dark—wasting...

Sunny was a treat to read. It is most appealing as the story is very well done and the artwork is beautiful. I applaud the author for writing a book to meet the needs of...

Kat held her head high as she met the King’s eye.Her stare was bold, yet sweet, and it would not die.Gansevort looked down into these dark, green pools.And soon his tone softened as he bought...

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!

A child s a special possession from God.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.

We lose our soul, to find our life.

I discovered that the real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with you at all. It is about a very special gift. I want to you tell you about this gift.

You have made the moon,” The Jester said. “That is the moon.

I love to teach children science.

Dreams are glimpses into life’s truths.

Loaming is my special word for it..it’s a combination of looming and roaming

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent...

Magic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That’s why it is magic.

I don’t know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i’m just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise....

Gusty McCabe, tha’s m’ name and tellin’ stories, tha’s m’ game, If they all ain’t true I ain’t t’ blame, I’ll tell ’em all just the same.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

To be a good writer, become a good listener.

God’s greatest blessing; gift of children.

Anything can become a children’s book if you give it to a child…Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

Don’t look so sad, Eric. There isn’t a day that passes when your nosy beak doesn’t find its way into someone’s business. I’m sure you’ll find the best-ever story before

A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.You want something a little more colourful,...

You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

We are God’s chosen people.We are God’s treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God’s children.

On a certain level, homeschooling is all about socialization. Whatever the teaching methods used in school or homeschool, it is ultimately the social environment itself that distinguishes homeschooling from conventional school. This social environment includes...

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists...

Hey, ants!” she shouted. “Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe’s lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again

True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway