I do look for universal conflicts and traumas. I can remember these things from being a kid you know, the bad haircut, or just being late for school. They’re kind of ordinary, everyday things. I like to take these mundane things and then build them into these great, huge fantasies just let the imagination run wild and get very overblown and sometimes overwrought with these things. That’s where, to me, a lot of the humor comes from.
Teague takes everyday conflicts and turns them into wild tales.
Mark Teague likes to find humor in the everyday events of childhood. In this exclusive video interview with Reading Rockets, Teague talks about his books, the kids he meets when visiting schools, and his books Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?