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

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

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.

In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?