I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
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I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
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Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.
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I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.
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As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
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The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
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Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
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Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.
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As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.
