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.
The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.
After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.