Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.

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.

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

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

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