Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

And the walls became the world all around.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.