The last illustrator who worked with him apparently retired, and when she did so, everyone assumed he was going to retire with her—they were a kind of package deal—but he is still kicking it at like eighty-something-years-old. People say he’s a total nutcase—I think he has to be to write the stuff he does. And somehow, the lady in charge of finding him a new illustrator for his next release, Threadbare, thought I—the portfolio full of bunnies and baby porcupines in scarves—would be a good fit for this eccentric old man.
