characters

The project was on ice for a week or so, the publisher and I had some professional courtship display going on. But we found each other, so I can go ahead. Nothing like starting negotiations after starting the work :-( I collected what ever pictures I could find of the different characters. I already have a pretty good idea how I am going to depict some of them. The hamster sisters can wear their beautiful hats when they go picnicking. And I did not remember uncle Gerrit had such a bright pink beak. I can use my bengal rose on it. But now I am going to spend the rest of the day puzzling the story onto the exact number of pages. Which is pretty hard, I made mistakes in both my previous Little Golden Books. I have to decide which scenes go on single pages, and which ones on spreads, and still have the last words end up on the last page.