I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

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I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

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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.

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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.

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