When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.