Isn't it magical that you can put a seed in the soil and from such a seed a plant will grow. I am always amazed by it, even though I have planted hundreds of seeds.
Look what arrived while I was enjoying our holiday: Pomme and the Pumpkins as a real book.
I am very grateful for all the help I have received from Eleanor [text and story] and Richard [illustrations and lay-out], for all their ideas, for their enthusiasm and expertise and for their attention for details. Without them my manuscript wouldn't have become a book.
Pomme and the Pumpkins is printed with plant-based inks [and printed on sustainably sourced FSC paper], something that makes me very happy!
I just planted the pumpkin seeds I had saved last autumn [after making pumpkin soup] and it feels like the right moment to tell a little bit about a new book about a child, some pumpkin seeds and a very special friend:
Pomme saves pumpkin seeds while she is making pumpkin soup with her father. In spring she carefully plants the seeds and looks curiously how the seeds sprout, fruit and ripen. Is she the only one who looks after the pumpkin plants?
Due out half August.
For this book I made a whole pile of sketches from the growing process of my pumpkin plants through the seasons.