A few moments of the story:
The fleas worked very hard, the circus canvas was transformed into sail canvas..
'Don't worry!' Said the Rose of Winds. ' We're going the right way, following the best winds and the best stars, we can't go wrong.'
3/4/13
3/3/13
Book Launch Nights:
April 2012 at Eight Club - Bank - London
August 2011 at Livraria da Vila - Jardins - São Paulo
6/29/11
in between the lines/ No entre linhas
Even being told in a playful way, its content is loaded with real features of the human condition.
Apesar de ser contada de uma forma lúdica, o conteúdo é carregado de características reais da condição humana.
4/11/11
the origin of the name/ A origem do nome
It was precisely on September 15h, 2006 when according to my records, this story started.
The inspiration came one afternoon when Mark Jamie Jane's father, visited me. He told about his mother’s intention to make a nice surprise to his daughter, or her little granddaughter which was only 8 years old.
Jamie Jane would have left a strawberry in the garden last night, instructed by her grandma Marilyn who said that a fairy would collect the fruit before the sunrise. As predicted, in the following morning, the strawberry wasn’t there anymore, but little Jamie was not sure if the fairy had collected the gift.
So I was called to intercede on behalf of the fairy.
It would be a nice picture of the fairy on the front and a hand written letter on the back.
Foi precisamente no dia 15 de Setembro de 2006 quando, de acordo com meus documentos, toda esta história começou.
A inspiração chegou numa tarde quando Mark, pai da menina Jamie Jane veio me visitar. ele contou sobre a intenção de sua mãe em fazer uma surpresa para a neta dela, que naquela ocasião, tinha apenas 8 anos de idade.
Jamie Jane deixou um morango no jardim em uma noite,de acordo com a avó Marilyn, uma fada viria apanhar a fruta antes do nascer do sol. Como previsto, na manhã seguinte, o morango não estava mais lá, mas a pequena Jamie Jane ainda não estava certa se a fada teria mesmo achado o presente.
Então fui chamada para interceder.
Seria então uma linda foto da fada na frente e uma carta escrita à mão no verso.
Now and again I’m able to remember the feeling of being a messenger for a so important mission.
I’ve got a pen and started to tell Jamie Jane how was the fairy’s journey coming from a very far land just to collect the gift, and how happy all her mates were when she got back home with a so delightful dessert. All that was written in first person.
Agora e mais uma vez consigo lembrar da sensação de ser mensageira
de uma missão tão importante.
de uma missão tão importante.
Peguei uma caneta e comecei a contar à Jamie Jane como tinha sido a viagem da fada vinda de um lugar muito distante só para receber o presente,
e de como todas suas companheiras fadas ficaram felizes
quando ela retornou trazendo aquela deliciosa sobremesa.
Tudo escrito em primeira pessoa.
e de como todas suas companheiras fadas ficaram felizes
quando ela retornou trazendo aquela deliciosa sobremesa.
Tudo escrito em primeira pessoa.
September 15th, 2006
After the first letter something happened and I could not avoid the inner desire to keep writing and illustrating that story called 'Fairies and Strawberries', which is not about strawberries left in the garden for a fairy, but it is about fairies and even a strawberry plays a big role in it.
One year later, it was time for another strawberry to be given, and time to write another letter:
Depois da primeira carta algo aconteceu, e não pude mais evitar a vontade de continuar escrevendo e ilustrando a ficção chamada 'Fadas e Morangos',
que não fala sobre um morango deixado em um jardim para uma fada,
mas sobre fadas com certeza e até um morango faz parte também.
que não fala sobre um morango deixado em um jardim para uma fada,
mas sobre fadas com certeza e até um morango faz parte também.
Um ano mais tarde, seria hora de um outro morango ser oferecido,
e hora de escrever uma nova carta:
e hora de escrever uma nova carta:
October 09th, 2007
I'm sure they live better in our imagination.
De qualquer forma esta foi a primeira e última vez que ilustrei uma fada.
Tenho certeza que elas são mais vivas em nossa imaginação.
2/8/11
1/30/11
The last and the first at the same day
Well, first I want to call attention for the language issue.
Today I read the third proof of Fairies and Strawberries, and i will admit it sounds like a rich english, which i don't really speak or write, so before we start to talk in bad english i will remember and thank very much these 3 people who helped this book to communicate exactly how i wanted to, considering that i speak much better in Portuguese, my mother language.
Mikolav was the first one, he is a poet, most propably from south London, but performing very often at Fournier St. E1 Guy Hilton's Gallery at that time around 2006. I asked him to read the first manuscript which he eventually did. He told me that was a little too Latin, I little too dramatic for the english molds, and as well too many 'ands' and 'thats' and 'a kind of' etc. He also laughed at the word 'pedipalps' belonging to one of my characters, and still belonging. After that I met Heather Prince, who had a look at my illustrations and considered a chance to have one of her books illustrated by me, she had it done at the same time she revised my book for the second time adding valuable consistence to it. She, for example changed the way to express a felling of one of my characters. Originally he ‘almost died’ but Heather told me that ‘a sudden pain in his stomach’ would be more apropriated.
And finally, Anthony Doyle, an english academic revisor living in São Paulo. He added grammatical perfection and a balance of what’s acceptable in spoken English or what’s wrong in formal English.
Thank You.
Today I read the third proof of Fairies and Strawberries, and i will admit it sounds like a rich english, which i don't really speak or write, so before we start to talk in bad english i will remember and thank very much these 3 people who helped this book to communicate exactly how i wanted to, considering that i speak much better in Portuguese, my mother language.
Mikolav was the first one, he is a poet, most propably from south London, but performing very often at Fournier St. E1 Guy Hilton's Gallery at that time around 2006. I asked him to read the first manuscript which he eventually did. He told me that was a little too Latin, I little too dramatic for the english molds, and as well too many 'ands' and 'thats' and 'a kind of' etc. He also laughed at the word 'pedipalps' belonging to one of my characters, and still belonging. After that I met Heather Prince, who had a look at my illustrations and considered a chance to have one of her books illustrated by me, she had it done at the same time she revised my book for the second time adding valuable consistence to it. She, for example changed the way to express a felling of one of my characters. Originally he ‘almost died’ but Heather told me that ‘a sudden pain in his stomach’ would be more apropriated.
And finally, Anthony Doyle, an english academic revisor living in São Paulo. He added grammatical perfection and a balance of what’s acceptable in spoken English or what’s wrong in formal English.
Thank You.
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