Chris Priestley (born 1958) is an award-winning British children's book author and illustrator. He lives in Cambridge, England.
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.
Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
Anthony Sampson
Sonia Sotomayor
Blake Shelton
Katharine Cornell
Jillian Barberie
Roy Baumeister
Ken Hom
Oprah Winfrey
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Jaime Hernandez
Daniel N. Robinson
Chi Chi Rodriguez