How did I get this lucky? I spend my days writing for kids! Does it
get any better than that? (Only if you add a palm-fringed beach or
the British Museum . . . and once in a while, I do.)
The art below (by the wonderful Bill Slavin) shows me with some
of my characters. Note please that no one is paying the slightest attention
to me. Well, that's how it is for a writer. You make up characters, and then
they develop lives of their own. They surprise you. They amuse you. They begin
to feel like your friends.
I have now written more than thirty-five books (picture
books, novels and graphic novels).
Here are the two newest — and the most exciting to me!
