The city offered many options; it was a good place for a poor kid to grow up. We didn't have a lot of money, but you didn't need a lot of money when I was young.
"Moving around so much was probably good experience for becoming a children's author, because one of the most traumatic things in a child's life is moving and being new in a new school. I was a very shy child who didn't make friends easily, yet friends were very important. So it was difficult. That experience made me sympathetic to that particular aspect of a child's problems."1
Adler's father left the family when she was twelve. "That was another experience that made me comfortable writing about divorce and separation.
"I was very close to my mother. She was understanding, liberal, and tolerant of all people. She taught me to treat everybody as an individual, evaluating a person on his character rather than anything else. All those good values have stuck with me, I think. My mother had the advantage of being a working mother. My grandmother took the brunt of the nagging business of child raising.
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