曹文轩是一位个性化的、有用标注就能识别出来的作家。他在许多公开、重要的场合表述过这样一种儿童文学创作观念:不要刻意去写儿童文学作品。他曾表示,在他的创作过程中,给孩子写的意识会逐渐“化 Cao Wenxuan is a personalized, useful label will be able to identify the writer. In many open and important occasions he expressed such a concept of children’s literature: Do not deliberately write children’s literature. He once said that in his creative process, the awareness he wrote for his children would gradually “come down.”