I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.