
30 Years on: A Canoe in the Mist
I like anniversaries, especially when they concern my illustrations! So here’s another fond memory – this year is the 30th anniversary of the publication of Elsie Locke’s A Canoe in the Mist. This was my third commissioned book contract, after Jeremy Strong’s Fatbag (A & C Black) and Roger Collinson’s Get Lavinia Goodbody! (Andersen Press), both first released in 1983. Like them, it was a commission for black and white text drawings to a novel. Unlike those titles however, bo