An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience..

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words..

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave..

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber..

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open..

A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of….

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over..

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?.

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-.

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are d….

The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie are retired, so this is what t….

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one..

I also learn a lot about everybody else's process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting….

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely..

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to h….

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over. There are all kinds of really power….

I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself question….

Elephant and Piggie could just Google themselves! With the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series, we're picking artists who have a voice already. Th….

I've been lucky enough to have made enough of these types of children's books that while I don't necessarily know what works, I know what doesn't wor….

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence..