Another very early book, maybe the third or fourth I ever did, and again there are technical problems with the work. I had a tentative line, which was probably to do with my inexperience drawing figures. I met Alan Spooner, the author, years afterwards: he introduced himself after a performance of Britten's Albert Herring at the Nottingham Playhouse. I was singing Albert, and he said he wasn't sure whether to approach me because I looked too young to have been the illustrator of his book. I was about 45 at the time. God bless stage makeup and kind lighting, say I!

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