I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format..

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me..

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist..

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!.

I have been drawing all my life..

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it..

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children'….

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of ….

Each book first begins with a little idea..

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh..

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no mat….

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!.