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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.
I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
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.
M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.
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