the original black-and-white jacket artwork
(before colouring and lettering) for my debut
children’s novel ‘Lydia’s Tin Lid Drum’

details include: confectionery flora,
ice-cream mountains, biscuit strata,
seaweed sweets and golden jellybeans,
Black Forest truffles and a teaset city,
with a central potted pear drop tree

(indian ink / digital, 2008)