![]() ![]() What's not simple, though, are her illustrations of Angelina's world. "In a small cottage without any running water. "I lived in a very small village in Essex," she says. Kids will notice if the drawings don't make senseĪngelina Ballerina is set in in the village of Chipping Cheddar - all thatched cottages and winding roads - a look from the 1940s East of England, where Craig grew up. "They've got whiskers which express motion. "They've got little hands, they've got a tail which expresses emotion," says Craig. It's sort of universal." And, while Angelina is a little white mouse, her parents are brown mice, and her ballet school classmates are also different-colored mice. "Because you often hear little girls say 'Well I'm Angelina.' and because they're mice it's not fixed in any country or anything. ![]() "It's very fortunate in a way," says Craig. ![]() Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Angelina Ballerina ![]()
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