I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.
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.
Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.
What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.
I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.