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'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.

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

Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

I do like to be surprised.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.