Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So... if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump.

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.