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When I Read To Children, I Try To Become The Characters. It's Great If You Can Make A Separate Voice For Each Character. Sometimes You Can Lower Your Voice With Excitement Or Get More Intimate About It: You Can Lean Forward And Engage The Children As A Narrator Or As A Reader. It's Particularly Important That You Find The Voice That You Want To Use For Each Character, Because Then Children Can Imagine That Person As You're Reading Aloud. And Of Course, The Illustrations Help Enormously.

I Always Knew I Had This Voice, But It Wasn't Until I Was In My 20s That I Realized I Had The Power To Do Something With It.

I Feel An Enormous Responsibility To Bridge The Gap Between England And America, And Be A Sort Of Very Quiet Ambassador For My Country To Try To Sort Of Do A "hands Across The Water" Thing Where They Understand England And English People Understand Americans. I Adore America.

My Sense Of The Family History Is Somewhat Sketchy, Because My Mother Kept A Great Deal To Herself.

Books Make Great Gifts Because They're Everybody's Favorite Things.