Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

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.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

She felt like a parent for the first time,

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.