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

In some ways I'm very structured.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I do like to be surprised.

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 structured with time.

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