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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.