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 generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.

I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

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.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

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.