Tag: stories
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March 20, 2024
“What’s it feel like to know all these people read your books?” A ten-year old asked me that question when I was signing books at the Tucson Festival of Books. I looked at her and said, “It’s unbelievable. I don’t have words for it.” “Okay,” she said. “Well, maybe if you work on it, you…
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January 16, 2024
Stories, to me, are like golden doorways. Julia Sarda’s art for the upcoming Hotel Balzaar perfectly captures that sense of promise and possibility. I’m so excited to have readers step into this fairy tale world where anything can happen. Coming October 1st, 2024. Reactions: 2.5K Comments: 204 Original Post
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January 9, 2024
This kid I was 54 years ago? She is my New Year’s resolution. I want to honor her tenderness, her hope. I want to tell stories that will keep her imagination, her belief in the impossible alive. Happy New Year, everyone. Reactions: 5.4K Comments: 218 Original Post
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August 16, 2022
Last week, a neighbor presented me with a battered copy of The Tale of Despereaux and said, “My daughter is heading to college soon. I read Despereaux to her when she was 8 years old and she’s read it on her own lots and lots of times since then, and last week, she asked me…
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July 7, 2021
Yesterday on a walk, a woman stopped me and said: “Can I tell you? My three year old was so upset last night and she kept on saying the same sentence over and over ‘I want to go the Watson’s house.’ And I kept saying ‘We don’t know any Watsons.’ And finally she screamed, ‘Toast!…
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January 26, 2021
Why do all your stories have animals in them? This is a question that kids ask me often. Recently, I found an answer in an old photo. It’s Philadelphia, 1967. I am three years old. My brother, Curt, is six. I don’t know how old the dog is. All I can tell you is that…