Walter Dean Myers : (2)

" I don’t want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it’s a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you’re going to suffer. There’s a difference to be made – and you can make it if you read with your child. " - Walter Dean Myers

" My younger brother’s death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In ‘Fallen Angels’ I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic. " - Walter Dean Myers