JUDITH

KERR
“ O N E O F B R I TA I N ' S
MOST SUCCESSFUL
CHILDREN'S AUTHORS”
• “I’ve spent 94 years looking at things, so I
have enough images of people and cats in
my head that I can draw them.”

• “I made it up for my daughter when she

was two or three and I put in everything
she liked. She was crazy about going out
in the dark, for example. I used to tell her
all sorts of stories and she was quite
critical of the others and used to say “talk
the tiger””
• “I would be very sad and lonely if I didn’t work. I
finished this book a few weeks after the last one was
published, which is unlike me, and I’m already thinking
about the next one. There is a new urgency to my
working. Maybe it is like the disease, honey fungus, that
trees get when they have an incredible display one year
and look better than they ever have before. And then it
kills them. Perhaps you get something like that at the age
of 94, because, after all, I can’t rely on going on and on.”