Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

I also learn a lot about everybody else's process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting. Laurie Keller is a character person, so she came to the project with these blades-of-grass characters that we were able to literally grow a story around.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are dialogue-driven. They like books that are about issues that they live with, in their own elephantine and porcine ways.

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