Frankly, Writing Poetry For Children

I'm Usually Working On Eight Or 10 Things At Once.

I Keep A Guitar Around While Writing And Will Improvise Music. I Do This For Several Reasons, Such As That It's Fun, And Sometimes It Helps Me With The Meter.

There's Not Too Much Difference Between Writing A Picture Book And Writing A Collection Of A Hundred Poems Or So, Except That The Bigger Books Take A Lot Longer To Do.

His Blood Is Black And Boiling Hot, He Gurgles Ghastly Groans. He'll Cook You In His Dinner Pot, Your Skin, Your Flesh, Your Bones.

After I'd Produced About Two Dozen Pen And Ink Drawings, One Evening I Decided That They Needed Poems To Accompany Them. I Still Have No Idea Where That Notion Came From, But It Took Me About Two Hours To Produce Verses For These Creatures.