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

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.

I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.

there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

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.

When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.