I love simple picture books. I enjoy complex picture books too, but mostly I gravitate towards simply told stories and illustration. That is the kind of books I want to and try to make. It is easy to be awed by the wonderful art of the Chris Van Allsburgs, the …
I’m a collector of ideas. Though not a very good one. I have a tendency to let brilliant, world-changing picture book ideas escape by not writing them down. Great ideas slip into my head at inopportune times. Almost never when I am at my keyboard or sitting with pen and …
A passion for picture books isn’t difficult to explain. They make us laugh out loud, they make us sad (and then rescue us,) they make us happy, they teach us about the world. Some just warm our insides. Every now and then a picture book comes along that is important. …