As an English graduate, must insert obligatory line about how there are too many to choose from blah blah blah. What came into my head, however, was The Lives of Christopher Chant. It's easy to love children's literature. They're fun and aspirational. Ahhh. Yet, now I come to think of it, I could have drawn Oranges are not the Only Fruit, which is hilarious. And I'd only have had to draw a minimum of two pieces of fruit (one of the them an orange). It could have been so simple.
The Lives of Christopher Chant is about a boy who can travel to parallel dimensions. Others can do this too, but he is particularly awesome at it. Originally a lonely child, he finds friendship and beauty in these other lands. However,others see the alternative worlds as a source of profit. Christopher's talent is perfect for being exploited to this end. Christopher must decide whose side he's really on.
My pictures shows Christopher meeting the mermaids, who he nicknames "the silly ladies". Here they are being silly. His posh bed is at the top, with some stepping stones through the misty in-between world leading to the mermaids. The incarnation of the goddess is in the top left, reading an Enid Blyton book with one of her holy cats at her feet. To symbolise the fact she is the living goddess, she sits on a fancy pouffe.
If I had spent more time on it, I would have done something about Christopher's HUGE ARSE. Whoops! I suppose I shouldn't have pointed it out to you. You'll keep looking at it now. Stop it! Give the boy some privacy!
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