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I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.