English Book List

“Where do ideas come from?” is an often-asked question that cannot be easily answered. One child, who wrote to me, asked this question, then went on to tell me that ideas come from both your [...]

I would like to tell you about an exciting event. In the Fall of 1997, Mr. Fred Rogers and his film crew came to visit me in my studio. They taped a 10-minute segment for the Mister Rogers’ [...]

How I Came to Write for Older Readers In my late 30’s Bill Martin Jr came across one of my illustrations for an advertising campaign and asked me to illustrate a book he had written called Brown [...]

“Over the years I have demonstrated to young children the basics of color theory developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I ask them to tell me what the opposite of black is. ’White!’ the [...]