Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians. - Neil Gaiman

I grew up loving and respecting short stories. They seemed to me to be the purest and most perfect things people could make: not a word wasted, in the best of them.

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.