I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.