As a kid, I would spend all my school recesses and lunch breaks quietly reading in a corner. (No, I wasn’t very popular with the other kids…). I used to spend the Summer holidays with my grandparents and Avó Lena would take me to the local library, where I ‘d pick some old classics from the children’s section, with the help of an even older librarian. Needless to say, I loved the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, and anything else by Enid Blyton but I particularly liked the O’Sulivan Twins - As Gémeas, in portuguese.


I was, of course, very excited when I was approached by Oficina do Livro to create the covers for a new edition of the O’Sullivan Twins’ collection. I hadn’t done any children’s illustration for a while (or any book covers, thinking of it) and I would be recreating that old universe of a British boarding school in the fifties, with dorm rooms, uniforms and strange sports.

And how nice is it to swing by a book shop and see them all on display like this?