"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."

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"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."

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"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."

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"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"

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"Each book first begins with a little idea."

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"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."

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"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."

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"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."

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"I have been drawing all my life."

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