 Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go. |
| I will try to write books until I drop dead. |
| My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that. |
| I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. |
| I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. |
| I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. |
| I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things. |
| Every German child learns to speak English in school. |
