Rabbits in the Bookshop

"To hear is to forget,

to read is to learn,

to do is to know"

- Chinese Proverb

How to Hold A Crocodile in the Bookshop

"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." - Eric Carle