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. There are all kinds of really powerful things in that moment, which is what makes story work. Part of Laurie's Keller personality is this ability to revise, to come back and to look at things from a different angle. I don't want to tell stories too much out of school, but Laurie Keller is the only person who sent me a card on my birthday and then sent me a revision.

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

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

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.

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.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.