I don’t think about restricting my vocabulary. I know that, you know, again in a Level One I Can Read book, I wouldn’t use fancy words. I was struck by the fact that in the picture books, which are for even younger kids, you can use fancier words. You can use more elaborate vocabulary because those books are always going to be read to someone. And so you don’t have to, you know, trust that a child’s going to know what that word is. So that was kind of an interesting thing to, you know, a realization so that I try I guess to be more poetic in the children’s picture books.
And much more I guess just straightforward in the I Can Read books. You know, simple action. But, again, trying to get that play in words. And a lot of times the play in words will work better if it’s communicated very — I don’t want to say flatly, but very dryly, it becomes funnier.