It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

Not everyone is as nice as us.

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.