What age to start the prequels?

Question:
 
I have been reading Alice since the beginning. They are amazing. I don’t know HOW you do it, but you do. You’re such an inspiration. I was on the website today, browsing through the fan page and “about you”. I found it so awesome that you’re from Indiana. I am too. It sure is an [...]

When You Were a Kid

Question:

when you where a kid what did you want to be when you grew up

Phyllis replied:
 
A teacher, an actress, an opera singer, or a missionary to China.

We Made a Deal

Question:
My mom was so strong on me not shaving, because, infact, she doesn’t shave her legs herself. -She thinks it’s sexist or whatever.- I really wanted tostart though, so i had  talk with her. I explained that the hair made me fel embarressed, and it was my body, so i shold be able to decide. [...]

How Do I Make Him Ask Me Out?

Question:
 
I just want to say thank you so much for the great Alice series books you’ve wrote!!
 
I am so sorry to bother you,but I am from Year 8,like Alice,and I liked a boy in Year 10.He is very nice and I just wished he could ask me out!!
 
I hope you will tell me how do [...]

She and Her Friends Would be Besties?

Question:
How come Alice is really popular and has great friends? That makes her seem less real to me. I would think that she and her friends wouldn’t be “besties” since the Sixth grade and never have any huge fights that could tear them a part… Just curious.
Phyllis replied:
 
Really popular?  How?  She doesn’t regularly get phone [...]

Motherless Like Alice

Question:
    I am motherless, like alice.  I guess thats why i find myself to be so much like her.  i spent my childhood looking for a “substitute mom” and i know you dont even know my last name but its you!  Just like how alice thinks of Mrs. Plotkin and pictures her in her mind [...]

Good for Girls to Know

Question:
 
 
I read some Emails about Alice books being “censored” in librarys. what does that mean? is that why my middle school didnt have the new ones last year? Do they take words out of the books or even chapters?
I hope not because The things you write about are good for girls to know!
Phyllis replied:
 
Nobody takes [...]

How Old Were You?

Question:

oh my gosh I’m a HUGE alice fan you are my all time favorite other I also love
the boys against girls series I might start wrighting my own how old where you
when you first started writing

Phyllis replied:

I started making up stories when I was in kindergarten,
but I had my first short story published when [...]

How Can I Get Him to Like Me?

Question:
 
 I need some help but first I want to thank you so much for writng the Alice series!
I am in sixth grade(in middle school) and I found out that the boy I liked in 4th grade likes another girl. I heard him talking at the end of school when kids r being loud and stuff so im only 99% sure he [...]

All Time Favorite

Question:
         i was wondering if you know any of the three people who make up erin hunter? i want to know because i really like her warrior series. it is my favorite series . after alice of course because alice is my all time favorite series. thanks for writing the alice series mrs.naylor it rocks!
 
Phyllis [...]