Yes, I walk. I tend to walk every day. Sometimes I walk alone; sometimes I walk with friends. And when we’re, um, upstate in our house, we have a little house upstate that we’ll talk about, but I garden. It becomes a very Zen, kind of, like, meditative thing where I realize, like, I’m working ideas out. I think I’m procrastinating, and perhaps I am, but I also find it’s a time to clear my head and think things through. And that’s a very, um, productive, creative time. The Leucrotta is a terrible beast who lives in the Dismal Marshes. He is the color of clotted blood, part stag and part horse, of a size that dwarfs both, a mouth that stretches ear to ear, and instead of teeth it has twin rows of solid bone. It is very fearsome, I assure you." Triplets occurred once in a generation, when the Snake-Star aligned with the Harpoon-Star, and the light of the Pierced Serpent fell on the yellow grass. -- this is a complete mumbo jumbo and I loved it!

I had all the time in the world; the life of a tree is long. I learned the arts of irrigation and aeration, of the tripartite field and the leaving of the fallow, fertilization and pruning, and the science of grafting. And all the while the pumpkin tree grew, and gave fruit, and wherever I mashed the pulp into the roots of the new trees, they would bear their own fruit all the year. The acres of mud became a forest, an orchard, the loveliest of any that ever grew, and at the center my tree that is me and me that is the tree, and we all grew together, and were happy. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard you put so many words together in the same place, girl. If you’re not careful, they’ll get together and have babies, and then we’ll never shut you up.”One reviewer mentioned murky mythology and it’s exactly that. Don’t expect a lot of cohesion. Meandering. Sometimes reminded me Ovid's Metamorphoses with its theme, but even that wasn't consistent. But I suppose it was THE theme. And I think I liked the first story more, although both of the finales were anticlimactic. In the United Kingdom, In the Night Garden... debuted on 19 March 2007 and aired its final episode on 6 March 2009. From 23 April until 10 June 2007, the show took a break from airing on the CBeebies channel although it was still shown on BBC Two. From 11 June 2007 until 28 March 2008, the show aired on the CBeebies channel every day, including weekends, at 6:25pm in the "Bedtime Hour" slot, in addition to earlier 11am showings on BBC Two on weekday mornings. [11] From 29 March until 29 August 2008, In The Night Garden... was removed from its 6:25pm "Bedtime Hour" slot, which resulted in a nationwide fan petition outside the BBC's Television Centre studios asking for the programme to be re-instated to its normal slot. [10] The show returned to the daily "Bedtime Hour" slot at 6.20pm as of 30 August 2008 and began showing the second series (beginning with "Slow Down Everybody") on 1 September 2008. [12] From 3 January until 4 September 2009, the show was moved to a 6:00pm transmission time but was still retained in the “Bedtime Hour” slot. From 5 September 2009 onwards; to this day, the show remains in the 6:20pm slot and is traditionally the last full-length programme of the day before the bedtime story segment. The show also aired on Jetix Play. In 2010, more new toys were released like the Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy set that contained a copy of the Series 2 episode The Pontipines' Picnic (2008) on DVD as well as an electronic Ninky Nonk (which made the actual sounds from the Show) and a Playmat that had: the Bridge, the Tombliboo Bush (with The Tombliboos and their beds), the Gazebo and the Pinky Ponk. So, what’s something that you like to do when you need to clear your head and focus on creating a book? I have to imagine you like to get outside.

Berger’s attention to detail in the art, alongside her sophisticated and accessible text, creates a magical nighttime world. This spellbinding picture book will undoubtedly hold children in that glorious tension between wide-eyed curiosity and heavy-lidded drowsiness before they drift off to sleep.”— The Horn Book, Starred ReviewBecause sometimes, if you’re out in nature, if you are being loud and busy, you’re not going to catch what nature is trying to show you. And so having this quiet cat sort of gracefully move through the night, obviously a picture book, the only sounds you’re going to hear are the sounds in your head or the sounds of the grown-up reading it to you. And I think because she is a quiet narrator, we get to actually take in and have the sensory experience of what your artwork is showing us and what your words are telling us. I love that you said that. Andrew Davenport stated in an interview with the Guardian that the key inspiration for the series was his own dream world as a child. This started coming into place in 2004 when Davenport created sketches for the characters of Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka. The series would go on to be publicly announced a year later, and filming would eventually start in early 2005. [5] The process of creating collages, which involves drawing intricate dummies, making vellums, cutting stencils, and using found ephemera And then I am hoping that on a deeper level, my daughter was a little bit afraid at night and not so good at falling asleep, um, particularly in new places. So, when we got our house, we would lie outside—the sounds were different than the city sounds, and we would lie out on the porch at night and kind of look at the stars and identify the sounds. So, the book, on a deeper level, I’m hoping, um, touches on being open and curious and unafraid about things we don’t know, or people that we don’t know, or cultures or the unknown. And so that’s, maybe most people won’t go there, but I’m hoping that some people will use that as an opportunity for conversation about that. In The Night Garden". Golden Bear Toys. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022 . Retrieved 3 February 2022.

Dungan, Ronnie (18 September 2008). "Toy firms scoop Licensing gongs". Toy News. Archived from the original on 2 May 2011 . Retrieved 11 January 2010. All of the stories herein begin with this one: an abandoned girl in a garden whose skin has magically been inscribed with minutely tattooed stories. Faced with her first and only potential audience, she is compelled to tell her stories, for "Together they make a great magic, and when the tales are all read out, and heard end to shining end, to the last syllable, the spirit will return and judge me." Each story opens within the one before it like Russian nesting dolls. But then, several stories deep, a character from an earlier story reappears in a different narrator's story in a very different light; an action taken many stories ago is seen to have consequences that ripple out to touch other stories, other lives. There's little moral judgment: even a villain is allowed to be the hero of his own story.

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That’s so interesting. Yeah. Um, well, the cat is really a tribute to my daughter’s cat, Cozy—Cosette from Les Mis. Thea was obsessed with Les Mis. So yes, Cosette was a rescue cat that Thea got as a sort of little support animal when she started college. I’ve never had a cat. I have a bunny. She had a bunny growing up. My husband’s allergic to cats, but her cat used to come home in the summer and live with us and the bunny, and they’re fascinating because they have very, well, at least her cat has this very strong clarity that I find interesting. The boxset Hello Everybody! (24 November 2008) includes "Hello Igglepiggle", "Hello Upsy Daisy", "Hello Makka Pakka", & "Hello Tombliboos"

If I was disappointed by one thing, it was that I didn’t know this was a duology going in, and I expected more resolution of the frame story than was provided. I think it could have been done, too, and it would have been a fine standalone novel. Wedged behind the bar was a great hulk of a man who looked as though some giant had simply dropped an armful of limbs into a heap. I think since tiny-hood, I’ve always loved books. I’ve loved them as objects. I’ve loved them as just the form of a book. And even as a really little kid, we’d go to the library once a week, and we each were allowed to, I don’t know, get a little pile of books. So, I’ve always been a reader. I don’t think I’ve always actively thought of I may not even still think of myself as a writer. I don’t think I would introduce myself as a writer. And that’s just because even though I’ve always written, that’s not my training. My training is in design and in art. Yeah, absolutely. And another theme that I notice is just the natural world that almost always takes place in your artwork and your books. So where did your love for the natural world stem from? Milligan, Mercedes (15 September 2022). "WildBrain Sets Animated 'Teletubbies!' Series, New Content & CP for Hit Shows" . Retrieved 5 March 2023.

The Manikarnika were seven sisters, and when they were gnawed from the flesh of the Mare, they were Stones. Jade, Granite and Opal, Garnet and Shale and Iron Ore and little Diamond, pale as a milk-soaked paw." Dinos that love to move and groove get children counting from one to 10—and perhaps moving to the beat. So, Thea’s name is somewhere in each and every one of my books. And there’s often teas or things like that. And then sometimes there’s just something that I like, like California or where we met or, um, something that resonates a word that kind of resonates. I mean, sometimes it’s random, or sometimes it has to do with where the paper came from, which has meaning to me, but nothing to offer you. But there’s reasons why I’m choosing what I’m choosing. Yeah, gardening and also just where we live, we’re surrounded by eleven acres. Well, we have eleven acres, and then we’re surrounded by an Audubon bird preserve that’s 1000 acres. So, there’s a lot of woods; there’s a lot of, a lot of the things in the book came from little, tiny experiences I’ve had, like seeing fox cubs playing in the stream or having a hood owl up in our apple tree looking down at me while I was gardening. So yes, ah, books tend to be pretty personal, really, when you pare it down.