My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests the…

- Jon Scieszka

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the plea…

- Jon Scieszka

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gav…

- Jon Scieszka

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to …

- Jon Scieszka

Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no wo…

- Jon Scieszka

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

- Jon Scieszka

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

- Jon Scieszka

I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required…

- Jon Scieszka

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids …

- Jon Scieszka