Occupation: Children's Book Illustrator Birth: June 25, 1929
You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distanc….
We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, app….
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets..
Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book.
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his w….
One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between t….
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an ….
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel….
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to un….
On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop….
The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future.
The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.
One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar..
Papa, please get the moon for me..