I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

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.

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

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

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

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.