"I’ve wanted to be a children’s book illustrator since I was a little kid. As soon as I could read and write, I was making little tiny books and stapling them together. I love to draw. The first drawing that was saved that I drew was done when I was about two-and-a-half years old and, “It’s a cat,” I said. It looks like a spider or a ghost or something. I like to show it to kids just because they don’t think it looks like a cat for one, and it’s just an example of how much I must have loved to draw because my mom saved it and then I just kept drawing. There’s a series of early drawings like that."