2 Quotes by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Good Advice If your best friend’s feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She’ll feel as good as new. Now you’ll be feeling blue. But that’s what friends are for!

I think of writing – particularly of writing picture books – as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.