Here's a letter I got a couple of weeks ago. PRIME: Give me both because I like you're not serious. What's the most fulfilling part of, say, the last 30 years of doing what you do? You know, I get to scare a lot of generations. That took a little while, but now I'm very proud of it. I used to say, 'What are you doing here?' You always said 'we loved you when we were kids.' All right. I do a book signing now, I'm going to do one Saturday, I'll get seven year olds and ten year olds and 20 year olds and 30 year olds. And, you know, it takes a while to get used to being nostalgia.

How would you like to be nostalgia? That's not so great.

No, it took me a while to get used to it because they know what I am to you. But what is it like to have, you know, people as old as your son or as young as some of these kids in school… What is it like? I asked you how heady is it and you said it was awesome. As I said, we have adults in this building who grew up on your books. I'm curious, because you talk about kids at schools. 'Are you gonna retire?' No one ever asked that five years ago. I go to schools and kids never used to ask this. PRIME: I think a lot of people would disagree with you. See I can't think, I'm not that original. PRIME: If you could choose to do anything you want at this point, but whatever you could… Has there ever been the thought of, 'Hey, I'm going to just be done with that and do this, or you doing this because…' My least favorite, because who wants to write over and over again about a dummy that comes? I've written 15 books about a dummy that comes to life and it gets harder every time. And this Halloween, thousands of kids will go out with Slappy. Why my favorite? Because everyone loves him. He's my favorite character my least favorite character. You know, I have to write about this dummy that comes to life, Slappy. PRIME: Because you've already done this and. PRIME: Do you do you get more ideas and better as you go on? MORE: Ukrainian children's book author imagines the war through their eyes

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