What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

Und wenn ich mal heirate, dann muss mein Mann zwei Bedingungen erfüllen: Er muss Bücher und Kinder lieben, alles andere ist nicht so wichtig. Ich meine, wie er aussieht und so. Obwohl es ja nicht schaden könnte, wenn er schöne Zähne hätte.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.