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.

If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

I read whatever the publisher sends me.