Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

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.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

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.

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