You know why I love Pushing Daisies, in a single sentence?
Because
when Bryan Fuller compares it to kidlit, he means it as a compliment to both.
Whether or not that article is complimentary of the show itself (and I would not point to that article as A+++ showpimping; it's suspicious of whether the show will work in its second season), it ends with this paragraph:
But he's OK with that, and he compares the show to a top-selling horror anthology book series. Pushing Daisies, he says, is "kind of like Goosebumps in a way, where it's these really fun murder-mystery stories that are slightly ghoulish but have a tremendous amount of heart and are just ideally infectiously fun."
Some days I worry that if I smile this hard, my face will freeze like this.