Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.