I won’t let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.