We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!