Harriet Ziefert Quotations

Since I am both the author and the publisher of this book, I must, of course, take full responsibility for the text.

My goal is to make sure (children's) books address a whole range of emotions, ... There are too many books that are too sweet, too saccharine. Everyone is happy, everything is good, everything is fine. And that's just not real life.

It's nothing huge, nothing truly terrible. They're more like little aggravations,

Teachers and parents should try to get these feelings out in the open, down on paper and let them be talked about.

I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book ù though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.