In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

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.

In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.

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

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

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.