I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.