Gruffalo artist Axel Sheffler: 'This was something I could do to help'
"I don't feel like I'm very good at drawing real people in the real world" says a wistful Axel Sheffler.
The 62-year-old has just helped to produce what must have been one of the fastest books in history. Coronavirus: A Book for Children was written, illustrated and then"My publisher had been speaking to a head teacher in East London who told her that many families were really worried and felt a bit helpless," Sheffler says."So the idea was to give children aged five to nine some information - as factual as possible - and in a simple language.
The book deals with issues such as not seeing grandparents and coping with irritable parents who might be trying to work from home themselves at a stressful time. It drew on expert advice from a child psychologist and a professor from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.It's already been translated into 45 languages and downloaded by more than a million people.
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