Both liked fantasy and children's literature, so my world was one of circuses, animals, Beatrix Potter,
Winnie-the-Pooh, ... elves and gnomes and fairies. It was a lot of fun, and it stayed with me....
3 "My parents are the two people who most influenced me to become a writer by ... [encouraging] me ... when I was a child. Thanks to them, my sister and I grew up in a house filled with books, and Mom and Dad made reading fun. For instance, they read The Wizard of Oz with us, and we watched the movie on TV, and then one day as a surprise my father helped my sister and me make papier-mache puppets of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Cowardly Lion. Later my mother helped us make clothes for the puppets."4
"I was moody and temperamental, but those were very happy years ... because I had parents who would ... teach us magic tricks and roast marshmallows in the woods with us. They never cared if we made a mess. My mother called our playroom 'toy soup.'"2 Martin's mother also recalls, Ann "always had projects.... One summer she organized a lending library of her books for the neighborhood children, and I remember one irate mother complaining because Ann had insisted that her child pay for an overdue book."2 Martin was herself a baby-sitter, and her most unusual experience on the job was the weekend supervision of a friend's pet snake which ended, inexplicably, with the reptile's demise.
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