I think we’re living in such a visual time right now. It’s a visual culture. And technology – I think there was a thought that, oh, maybe writing would disappear. It hasn’t at all. In fact, people are writing more than ever, you know. The amount of text that we’re generating is probably at an all-time high.
But so is the number of images. And I think that these things are often combined. Kids, from a very young age through adulthood, we’re being bombarded with images often in concert with text to make us feel certain things. And oftentimes, with more nefarious ends than most picture book authors have.
So, you know, I think anybody in society but particularly kids can benefit from getting hip to the way these things work. I am not trying to coerce anybody into buying anything, just to create maybe an experience, and like any piece of art, sort of get to the truth of the matter. But the way that I do it is the same way that somebody’s going to try to make you buy a can of something.
And I think teaching the way this works makes for a better democracy, a better civilization.