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I’m totally thrilled with the first illustrations that Aga Kowalska has created for The Little Elf. Click on the image to see it full size. The Little Elf is a series of books for young children, featuring a little woodland elf and his animal friends.

I’ve published my poetry through lulu.com so if there’s a massive electromagnetic pulse that wipes out everything electronic, it’ll still survive in some form. It contains all my best poetry. If you want to check the poems out, there’s a link under Pages to the right. If you like them, go ahead and buy a copy of Silent Call. It features Catfish, which had some artwork commissioned from Luis Rey to illustrate it, and went on a tour of Japan and the USA. There are also a few I performed with Aware, back in the day.

Years ago, a friend and I started up the Totem Generator, which can generate a native British totem animal for you. The text is kind of nonsense, but uplifting nonsense, but Peter’s illustrations are amazing, gorgeous. He is incredibly talented, and his forte is nature.

The good news is, the images and text are now available as a book! There’s a bit more text in the book than on the website, and there are also a couple of bonus animals not available on the website. Here’s the link to preview or buy it: Native British Totem Animals.

Here’s a paragraph from the new chapter:

In a little world like this I like to see how the spiders determine their social order. In the best fly catching places you get the best spiders as they just plain eat any other spiders in that area as well as any flies. So you can look at a place in the way a spider might, checking where the best places for a web might be, and sure enough there you’ve got you your best spider. You needn’t even bother looking anywhere else as the best spider isn’t going to be somewhere rubbish. You don’t need to go to school to find it out. Then you just reach down and pick it out. It’s the best spider in all that land but it don’t have nothing on you. So I picked it out and regarded it for a while waving its legs then popped it in my mouth. They’re right chewy those things and chewing them can help pass the time some.

Read Flatland Cannibal (permanent link under My Novels on the right)