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" Ages ago, when I published 'Amelia's Notebook,' I'd sent it to traditional publishers I'd been working with, but nobody knew what to do with it. Tricycle was this small publisher who didn't know any better, and they took a chance. "
Know
Small
Chance
" Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it. "
Life
You
Frame
" Every kid has a story to tell! "
Story
Kid
Every
" History is exciting because it's true. "
History
Exciting
True
" I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations. "
Start
Will
Hope
" I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.' "
Notebook
Nine
Down
" Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format. "
Like
Diary
Kid
" More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story. "
Think
Best
Picture
" My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start. "
Old
Memories
Start
" New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will. "
Think
Book
New York
" Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think. "
Up
Words
Kid
" Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever. "
You
Art
Design
" Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end. "
Happen
Finish
Book
" When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need. "
Books
Working
Need
" With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five. "
Books
Big
Five
" Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is. "
Way
Work
Writing
" You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it. "
Good
Good Book
Write
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