"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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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."

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"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"

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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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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."

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