I think all writers write from the time they’re really young, and you just start asking the question, ‘What if?’ K. A. Applegate Read Quote
We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge. K. A. Applegate Read Quote
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we’re also capable of learning. K. A. Applegate Read Quote
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it’s an act of complicit cruelty. K. A. Applegate Read Quote
I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper. K. A. Applegate Read Quote
Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in ‘Ivan.’ The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan. K. A. Applegate Read Quote
It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren’t aware of. K. A. Applegate Read Quote
When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be. K. A. Applegate Read Quote
