Our rural location really added to the magic of Christmas for me.
We stirred the pudding mixture and made wishes, we picked chestnuts for the stuffing and dug up vegetables from the garden. There always seemed to be plenty of food and the preparation of the food was very much part of the fun of Christmas, with everyone taking part. Living in Norfolk it often seemed that our Christmases were cold and frosty and we would huddle round the fire playing board games and eating. When a tree seemed too expensive one year, I remember we made a ‘tree’ by tying two rather flat yew branches together at right angles to each other! It looked pretty convincing when it was decorated! We always had a real tree and decorated it just before Christmas with lots of handed-down decorations and many we had made ourselves. Our Christmas celebrations were simple and rural. I clearly remember the magic of Christmases when I was a child. So, for the last year, and right through lockdown, I have been working on Little Bear and the Silver Star. Some time ago I wrote and illustrated Jolly Snow, which is a winter book and therefore, I felt, had a longer shelf life than one purely about Christmas.įinally, however, I decided that, because of all the wonderful things I would be able to put into my illustrations, I would really enjoy taking on a Christmas project. I have wanted to write and illustrate a Christmas book for many years.
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