Tag: reader
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June 8, 2021
Franklin Endicott and the Third Key goes out into the world today. I’ll be putting copies in Little Free Libraries around the neighborhood. In this book, Frank learns (among other things) about the profound pleasures of reading aloud. I have this wish: that whoever finds a copy of Franklin Endicott and the Third Key will…
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April 21, 2021
“Books truly are nourishment for me.” –Elizabeth Acevedo (in a recent New York Times By the Book interview) The first word that comes out of my mouth when someone asks me who I am is “reader.” I am a writer, yes; but first and foremost, I am a reader. I am most at home in…
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April 16, 2020
Here is a happy thing: I saw a child in a bike buggy go whizzing past me. The kid had on a helmet and was holding a book. The father was pedaling furiously. I thought: how great is that? Riding and reading. The father stopped the bike suddenly. He called out something to a neighbor.…
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November 5, 2019
On Friday night in Saratoga Springs, New York at an event with Northshire Books, the last person in the line was a young woman who became a reader because a substitute teacher read aloud to her class from The Tale of Despereaux. This woman came all the way from Arizona for the signing that night.…
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October 3, 2019
In Doylestown, at a signing with the Doylestown Bookshop, a mother and son come through the line with a copy of The Tale of Despereaux. Mother: My son read this book first. And then he made me read it. Me (to the boy): Is that true? Boy: Yes. Mother: I’m not a reader. But I…
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April 9, 2019
Last week, I received a letter from a young reader that said, “All of my favorite writers are dead. Except for you. You are NOT DEAD.” Every time I think about that letter, I laugh out loud. Also, I’m oddly comforted. I’m NOT DEAD! I’m alive! I get to tell stories! It doesn’t get any…