How did I get this lucky? I spend my days writing for kids! Does it get any better than that? (Only if you add a palm-fringed beach or the British Museum . . . and once in a while, I do.)

The art on the right (by the wonderful Bill Slavin) shows me with some of my characters. Note please that no one is paying the slightest attention to me. Well, that's how it is for a writer. You make up characters, and then they develop lives of their own. They surprise you. They amuse you. They become your imaginary friends.

I hope they'll become your imaginary friends, too. Welcome!

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