Legends for Lionel: in pen and pencil

A playful collection of illustrated legends created for a child with an appetite for stories and pictures, this book turns ordinary seasons, celebrations, and household objects into characters of lively imagination. Lionel’s winter wanderings begin with Jack Frost, Thaw, and Fog, leading him across a snowy landscape toward a fantastical Christmas house filled with a stately turkey, sausages, plum pudding, mince-pies, crackers, bonbons, and a surprising pie with wings.

The adventures continue in a world where King Frost nips toes, Spring travels in a sleeping car, and garden tools hold conversations of their own. Lionel then follows a tinker and his dog through a bustling landscape of quarrelling pots, kettles, pans, fire-irons, and other familiar objects, where a little ingenuity can mend disagreements and transform an everyday trade into something magical. Full of rhyme, visual jokes, personification, and storybook charm, these sketches invite listeners into a warm, curious world where anything—from a rose’s tiny visitor to a kitchen utensil—may spark a legend.