Okay, I’ll admit it. I hate to throw anything away. I’ve always been this way. When I was a little boy I had the idea—delusion?—that my toys, books, clothes were alive. If I threw them out or gave them away, they felt pain. They knew I was abandoning them to a horrible fate: the garbage [...]
An interesting article entitled E-Readers With Color Open Door For Pictures appeared in the New York Times yesterday. Here’s a link if you’d like to check it out for yourself. Click HERE. I’m interested in this topic because right now every writer and illustrator I know who does picture books tells me that they’re becoming [...]
An interesting email came in yesterday that started me thinking. The writer was either a teacher or parent. She wrote to say how much she enjoyed my books. Then she asked me to tell her which ones corresponded to a list of values that she provided. The values were certainly the sort you would want [...]
