Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
DescriptionAmerican children's illustrator and writer
BornJune 25, 1929
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionWriter; Illustrator
WorksThe Very Hungry Caterpillar; The Grouchy Ladybug; Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
AwardsVerdienstkreuz 1. Klasse Des Verdienstordens Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Order Of Merit Of Baden-Württemberg; Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse Des Verdienstordens Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
