I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.
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Nationality: American Type: Cartoonist Born: May 28, 1947 |
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

