Did the Caldecott honor have an impact on my work? No.
I don’t think so. I mean it was a magnificent honor to stand up in front of those people and to see your book with a shiny medal, but I had a commitment to excellence before being awarded that and it didn’t seem to change that. I don’t think I became even less fanatical. I just stayed right on track. Heckedy Peg followed and that was equally detailed and ambitious.
We pretty much put the book that we just finished behind us because there’s always a new project that’s coming on that’s all exciting, you know, and so we just — we don’t — I mean I can go years without reading the books, you know, my books back there because something new is coming up that’s causing us to pay attention to and to fall in love with and to give it our most, so that’s what we do.