An Award Does Not Change The Quality

The Inclination To Believe In The Fantastic May Strike Some As A Failure In Logic, Or Gullibility, But It’s Really A Gift. A World That Might Have Bigfoot And The Loch Ness Monster Is Clearly Superior To One That Definitely Does Not.

At One Time, Most Of My Friends Could Hear The Bell, But As Years Passed, It Fell Silent For All Of Them. Even Sarah Found One Christmas That She Could No Longer Hear Its Sweet Sound. Though I've Grown Old, The Bell Still Rings For Me, As It Does For All Who Truly Believe.

The Polar Express Was The Easiest Of My Picture Book Manuscripts To Write... Once I Realized The Train Was Going To The North Pole, Finding The Story Seemed Less Like A Creative Effort Than An Act Of Recollection. I Felt, Like The Storys Narrator, That I Was Remembering Something, Not Making It Up.

The Dick, Jane, And Spot Primers Have Gone To That Bookshelf In The Sky. I Have, In Some Ways, A Tender Feeling Toward Them, So I Think It's For The Best.

The Polar Express Is About Faith, And The Power Of Imagination To Sustain Faith. It's Also About The Desire To Reside In A World Where Magic Can Happen, The Kind Of World We All Believed In As Children, But One That Disappears As We Grow Older.