We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.