All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that the grownups in your life have been answering for you. Before that, you are a good kid, or you are a funny kid, because you're told that's who you are. But when it's just you and the book, you have to figure out who you are.

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

Elephant and Piggie could just Google themselves! With the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series, we're picking artists who have a voice already. They have a sensibility. I don't want to make a book about blades of grass. That doesn't interest me. I want to make a book that Laurie Keller uses to express herself in this format. That's the key. That's what's going to keep it individual.

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-