I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.