Artistic rats aid award-winning illustrator & author

External Since: Feb 03, 2007 Posts: 21

This year's Kate Greenaway Medal-winner dedicated her winning book to
the two pet rats who helped her create it, putting in sterling service
nibbling the edges of the pages on cue to produce that authentic
'mouse-eaten' look:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2287832,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/jun/26/art.booksforchildr...ndteena

(I like her description of rats as pets being like keeping 'very small
dogs' ;-)
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

External Since: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 204

sweet

"Igenlode Wordsmith" wrote in
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> This year's Kate Greenaway Medal-winner dedicated her winning book to
> the two pet rats who helped her create it, putting in sterling service
> nibbling the edges of the pages on cue to produce that authentic
> 'mouse-eaten' look:
>
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2287832,00.html
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/jun/26/art.booksforchildr...ndteena
>
>
> (I like her description of rats as pets being like keeping 'very small
> dogs' ;-)
> --
> Igenlode Visit the Ivory Tower http://ivory.150m.com/Tower/
>
> Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
>