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.

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

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.

nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.

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

Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush

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