Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

Now excuse me while I drive everyone crazy with too many Burl Ives christmas songs.

and the winner is...

Okay, this turned out to be quite a bit more Jon Klassenish (I.e. more blatantly ripped off) than I had intended. But here we go, the five lucky people to receive one of the five Kip en Kuikenshows are:

Jordie
Cory
Samacleod
Leolietje
Katriona

If you send me an email with your adress I will mail the books to you as soon as possible.
It is of course entirely in Dutch, but I hope you will enjoy looking at the pictures.

Thank you all for entering, it's nice to know so many people want free stuff.
I mean of course, it's nice to know that you all like my doodles.

Forest persons

forestpersons, originally uploaded by groene_inkt.

Something I made for my agency's garage sale in Rotterdam. I painted them with gouache on bark, just so you know.

New Book and a giveaway!

Hey all,
continuing with the catching up, here's another post regarding recent goings on. This saturday while engaged in sawing and hacking wood all day (for the stove) the mailman delivered a box filled with the last book I illustrated.
I made it this summer, well actually it should have been spring, but I was in America getting engaged to someone wonderful and that somewhat lessened my productivity.
But the art director didn't mind my tardiness (so much), and here it finally is.

The book is about a young boy whose mother has won the lottery, so naturally some bad guys decide to dress up as tv-show presenters and kidnap him under the guise of taking him to the studio. It's all very exciting, and the end is happily as happy it can be.
Oh and there's an important part for a guinea pig too.

I was trying out all sorts of new things while making it, which is also why it took so long. I'm not entirely happy with every illustration in it, but there are some pictures in it I'm quite fond of. And I learned a lot while making it.

Now, since I don't exactly need 25 copies of the same book (my bookcases are full enough as it is) I've decided to give away 5 of them.
If you leave a comment here and tell me your favourite book about kidnapped children or boys and pets, I'll pick five winners.

Edit - Alright I'm changing the rules a bit, as I can't actually think of any childrens' books about kidnapped children myself either. So it's just boys and pets.
I know plenty of books about that, so I'm sure you have a favourite one as well.
So I'll pick five people who comment, with a little preference maybe for those who can name a good book about stolen kids.

The deadline is next monday at midnight (14-12 western european time).

I'll announce the winners next week.

Here's what you can win: