I was looking through my files for an old contract this afternoon and found the artist's roughs for the cover of this book. It was my first success in the United States where it won a major award. It didn't do so well in Britain but it is still available in paperback and I have seen it in a lot of schools. I've got a photo of a giant turtle that some kids made after reading the book somewhere. I'll post it here when I find it. Someone in the film industry suggested I turn the story into a film script but I never had time to. That's the problem with being a jobbing writer, you have to keep producing work in order to pay the bills and so you end up going for the projects you know will come to fruition. For me at the moment that means adapting fairy tales which I enjoy doing enormously.
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