The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.

My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.