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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Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.

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Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

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I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

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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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