Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.
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.
Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
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'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.