There Must Be More To Life Than

Each Month Is Gay, Each Season Nice, When Eating Chicken Soup With Rice

I Never Spent Less Than Two Years On The Text Of One Of My Picture Books, Even Though Each Of Them Is Approximately 380 Words Long. Only When The Text Is Finished ... Do I Begin The Pictures.

I Remember How Much - When I Was A Small Boy I Was Taken To See A Version Of 'peter Pan.' I Detested It. I Mean, The Sentimental Idea That Anybody Would Want To Remain A Boy.

Grown-ups Desperately Need To Feel Safe, And Then They Project Onto The Kids. But What None Of Us Seem To Realize Is How Smart Kids Are. They Don’t Like What We Write For Them, What We Dish Up For Them, Because It’s Vapid, So They’ll Go For The Hard Words, They’ll Go For The Hard Concepts, They’ll Go For The Stuff Where They Can Learn Something. Not Didactic Things, But Passionate Things.

If There's Any Advice I Have To Give, I Would Say It's That. If You're Looking For A Way To Get Closer To Your Kids, There Ain't No Better Way Than To Grab 'em And Read. And If You Put Them In Front Of A Computer Or A Tv, You Are Abandoning Them. You Are Abandoning Them Because They Are Sitting On A Couch Or A Floor And They May Be Hugging A Dog, But They Ain't Hugging You.