Turkey and drawings

Happy Christmas!

I’m about to close the office for a while. Well, I’m just saying that. I don’t really have an office. What I mean is, that I’m not planning to start working on anything new this year and I’m tidying up my desk. As I was doing so, I rediscovered this beautiful drawing. It came to me all the way from Germany and the author is the very talented Lysander Burleigh. I love the drawing.

Another picture which I received this week was sent to me by Pelle from Cape Town in South Africa. He wrote: At the beginning of our Christmas holiday something very sad happened. Madiba died. He was very old but he had worked very hard to make South Africa a nice country where people have to treat each other well. He was a hero in the whole world. I made this picture of him as an angel.

It is a really nice picture and Pelle’s email was accompanied by lots of beautiful photos taken by his mum. Here are my favourite one.

This time of the year is the time when postmen often bring some interesting parcels. In one of them was this book.

O.k. Silly Suzy Goose is a book which was published some time ago, but this is a special edition A Mini Pop-Up Classic. Walker Books have published just a few titles in this edition so far and Silly Suzy Goose is one of them. This advance copy was a nice Christmas present from my publisher. The book will be out in the spring of next year.