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

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

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

Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush

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

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