Occupation: Writer Birth: September 11, 1946
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not….
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there w….
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look ….
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book..
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood..
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older..
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books….
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design..
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum wa….