George the Greytown Wizard
The townspeople did not care for their town and it became untidy and run down. One night all colour left the town and it turned a dreadful grey. The people called on George to bring the colour back. He tried unsuccessfully until he met Rhiannon who was a young artist. Together they solved the problem
The townspeople did not care for their town and it became untidy and run down. One night all colour left the town and it turned a dreadful grey. The people called on George to bring the colour back. He tried unsuccessfully until he met Rhiannon who was a young artist. Together they solved the problem
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George, the grey town wizard
The illustrations in this book are mostly black and white. In the olden days
before computers and other similar things were invented, books were printed
on a printing press, thanks to Mr Caxton. It was very expensive to print coloured
pictures so many books were printed in black and white. So I, as the
author and illustrator of this book, created it in mainly black and white so that
it could be printed and sold cheaply.
The invention of computer changed all of that. Coloured pictures are an instant
reality which has added another dimension to every day life today. However
this story of how the town of Wannabe lost its colour has a deeper meaning
than the economics of printing presses. The story traces how Wannabe
became Betterbe through the efforts of one magician, one artist and the towns
people who learned to love their town and the extraordinary people who lived
in it.
This story is also set in ancient times when magic was real and imagination
made the impossible, possible. This story is dedicated to the real Rhiannon,
my grand daughter whose artistic efforts are gobsmackingly good.
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