![]() ![]() And if an author’s work is devoured, furiously, hungrily, then that’s an important thing to take note of. Sometimes the biggest thing for me, as an adult who’s involved in children’s literature, is to step back and recognise my position as a guest in this space. And I’d come to that decision for a variety of reasons, not just for the quality of his art work which burns from his books like fire, but also because of the children I knew who pretty much swallowed each and everything he’d published. ![]() This is where I stood with Chris Riddell conscious that I hadn’t really read much of his work, but conscious that his work was good. And yet, equally, it’s also very easy to have a consciousness of who and what that author is and how they do what they do. It’s very easy for somebody who reads a lot of books to miss an author. ![]()
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