"Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'."
- Curtis Sittenfeld
"Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone."
- Gabrielle Zevin
"Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do."
- Stephen Chbosky
"I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)"
- Lois Lowry