GALILEO

Good morning Hiccup.
I haven’t woken you, have I?
It seems so odd for me to be waking Hiccup from his slumbers, but I am recalling the times he would interrupt me at inopportune times.
‘I am posting an illustration of the time you ‘dropped-in’ on Galileo after he had invented his ‘Goodness Gracious Goggles’. Do you remember?’
He was quick to respond.
‘Well, I loved it because it was a great adventure but also because when I left him I found Harry again AND I found a little myself-Hiccup too.’
It did remind me of how things go in circles. A little like an analogy for life itself and our own lives here on our planet. But I digress.
‘Hiccup I think we will have to find other ways of telling your stories.’
He thought about this for a while.
‘Why, Papa.’
I had to tell him the truth. The original story of ‘Harry and Hiccup playing Hide & Seek’ hasn’t gone down well and the next story of Jemima isn’t being published so apart from the books I have had printed myself, it’s sort of hit a brick wall (like in the Galileo story!)
If anyone knows of a good publisher who might like the job of taking on Hiccup and the Alphabetabears, then I am listening . . . and I see, so is Hiccup.
‘Don’t cry Hiccup.’ we still have lots of pictures and stories of you and the real ‘you’ is still in the nursery.’
‘OK’, said a small sweet voice.

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