I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

I take my ideas from my experiences.

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

An award does not change the quality of a book.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.