Voice in the Desert: Dave Shelton to illustrate 'Sophie and the Locust Curse'

June 04, 2006

Dave Shelton to illustrate 'Sophie and the Locust Curse'

I am pleased to learn that Dave Shelton is going to be illustrating 'Sophie and the Locust Curse', due out in March 2007. Famine is a difficult subject to treat in a children's book, but I have tried to avoid sentimentality: 'Locust Curse' has lots of the usual banter, some daft songs, a camel race and an evil griot called Sam Saman (he was initially called Sam Saddam but my editors at Andersen Press were justifiably a little uneasy about that).

Posted by sahelsteve at June 4, 2006 07:14 AM