Many years ago when I first met Annie Ovenden I asked her if I could write some fairy stores inspired by her paintings. I didn’t think anything would come of the letter I sent and was genuinely surprised when she appeared at the door of the place I was working with transparencies and pictures of many of her paintings.
I wrote six and sent them to publishers who thought it was a lovely idea, and indeed one publisher stole the idea, but the book itself was too expensive to print because of the quality of the paintings. Not sure I believe that either.
However due to the wonders of digital printing we have been able to take what is now ten stories with ten paintings, and design a book for children. The stories are not more than a thousand words each and come Christmas people will be able to
…”FOLLOW THE ADVENTURES OF THE ACTRESS JUDITH AND HER MAGICAL, UNWANTED BOOTS, LISTEN TO THE WISE DOG KAI IN ANCIENT JAPAN, FIND OUT IF LONIA WILL EVER GET MARRIED, WHAT MADE DENSUS TURN BLUE, WITNESS A DRAGON’S LAST HOURS , DISCOVER WHAT MADE ALICE’S GRANDDAUGHTER ANGRY, HOW DID NED SAVE HIS HOME, CAN THE ELF OPIKLE DINN SAVE REBECCA’S LIFE, WHAT CAN A GHOST DO TO SAVE DINHAMA‘S VILLAGE IN ANCIENT INDIA AND WHAT HAPPENED WHEN KEITH LEARNED HIS DOG COULD TALK?”