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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.

Some People May Contend That There Is No Image More Charming That A Child Holding A Puppy Or Kitten. But For Me That's A Distant Second. When I See A Child Clutching A Book... To His Or Her Tiny Bosom, I'm Moved. Children Can Possess A Book In A Way They Can Never Possess A Video Game, A Tv Show, Or A Darth Vader Doll. A Book Comes Alive When They Read It. They Give It Life Themselves By Understanding It.

As Much As I'd Like To Meet The Tooth Fairy On An Evening Walk, I Don't Really Believe It Can Happen.

There Must Be Something To Think About At The End.

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.