looked for one piece of scary action, and this illustration hints at the owl’s sister, being killed by a train.


It would be untrue to say that I enjoy every bit of drawing I do. Some bits are boring, some are frustratingly difficult, some go hopelessly wrong, and some turn out to be way beyond my skills. I delighted in the books from which I have stolen these two pictures. n


Figgie Hobbin Poems by Charles Causley, 978-0330400008, Macmillan Children’s Books, £6.99 pbk.


Fly, Chick, Fly by Jeanne Willis, 978-1849394383, Andersen Press, £6.99 pbk.


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