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

I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out to be the kind of picture-book writer who has stuffed animals that go with their books. That would be okay with me.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

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

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.