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 love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

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.

I'm German, after all.

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

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 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.