I want to thank Eleanor Chai for thinking this could be a book and Jonathan Galassi for reading it, believing in it, and helping me shape it. Miranda Popkey for being able to ask a thousand questions but never be annoying. Maria Dibattista back at Princeton. Disney and Pixar for turning it down as an animated film and forcing me to write it out like a big boy. Albeit many years later. My dog, Blue, for being the best dog ever. And. My kids who are my constant audience in my head. Everything I write I write for them as they were, as they are, and as they will be.