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. Marissa Moss Read Quote
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. Marissa Moss Read Quote
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. Marissa Moss Read Quote
I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became ‘Amelia’s Notebook.’ Marissa Moss Read Quote
I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations. Marissa Moss Read Quote
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. Marissa Moss Read Quote
