"The Fingletoad Resort of Teddiviscious" by Julianne Dodds

Good idea to keep it a simple line drawing. Kind of reminds me of Shepherd's drawings of the Milne and Kenneth Graham stories, and also of the original drawings in the Phantom Tollbooth.

Which is the right approach: Lennon's stories go for that same imaginative crease, I think: the childlike imagination in the adult intellect. The line-drawings preserve the wonder of the thing. (By the way, sorry to use your website to pontificate, but what's so blasphemous about the Disney abomination of Milne is that Disney entirely remove the sad but wonderful area of indeterminacy that Shepherd completely understood: that's the essence of imagination, both childlike and adult.

Julianne Dodds replies: "Yes, I agree... I'm not sure that we're on the same Beatles level, though. But as long as you've read his books it's OK. I do get what you're saying about Milne; think about Lennon's "My Dog Nigel". He talks about how good the dog is and tells the dog to play because the dog's being put to sleep at 3:00. Lennon should only be read after reading The Little Prince, because then you understand a child's enlightenment."

Oh oh! I have Spaniard In The Works, and In His Own Write. Aren't they just terrific?
Nice work here. I can definitely see the influence.
Lovely!

Julianne Dodds replies: "Terribly terrific. I'm glad you can tell that I was reading Lennon and not just high from nail polish."

The bird is sooooo... Cute!