I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.