"The imaginations of hosts of little children, many now parents themselves, have been shaped by the paintbrush of Helen Oxenbury. Her illustrations have guided millions of toddlers off to the Land of Nod."
"I have finished the drawings... It is really quite weird. It feels a bit like a Dr Seuss, which I love," Oxenbury said regarding her new work with Rosen.
"I've already read the book to some of my eight grandchildren and normally, when I say, Look, this is something that Granny has done,' they can be quite uninterested. This time, though, I have found they did later come out with some of the repetitive bits of verse."
"Infamously, when Oxenbury's watercolours for Bear Hunt were first shown to Rosen he was rather nonplussed. He asked, What on earth story is this?' because he had imagined something quite different."
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