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.

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

We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.

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 knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

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 would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.