This instalment of the Dalek Game is for Margery Williams’ The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real), illustrated by William Nicholson, a book which inspired me with a terror of getting scarlet fever in case all my books had to be burned. I don’t recall that we owned it, but I do remember the lingering alarm.
I… would sort of like to have this Dalek (do you know I own no 3-dimensional Daleks?! I do have a sonic screwdriver torch which I received at an office gift exchange one year, and friends gave me a not-a-TARDIS-retr0-blue-police-b0x lamp this Christmas).
In other news: It is a year yesterday since the flash-flooding in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, and a year today since the floods reached Brisbane – I’ve been looking back over my diary and sketches. There are still houses being repaired and elevated on stilts at the bottom of my street, still dark buildings at night. Sometimes when I walk by a Queenslander house, I can smell a breath of flood coming out of the cool dark spaces underneath. Last week I finally replaced my sneakers, so the house no longer smells of flood whenever they get wet (it’s all about the shoes).
Also, I put up an illustration I gave to a friend: Treed.
January 11, 2012 at 10:39 pm
I was going to buy this and send it to you as a Christmas present (I’ve seen it in action, and it’s very cool, it says “Exterminate” and everything), but I actually presumed that someone else was going to get it for you this year, long before I did. More fault me. I guess it would be better to have more than one wee robotic Dalek than none!
January 15, 2012 at 9:58 pm
I was at a new year’s party where one of those was roaming around the table :) And I’m comfortable with my Dalek-less status. At least, I wouldn’t trade books and marshmallows for them!
January 11, 2012 at 11:51 pm
I find it terribly sad you do not have a Dalek!! This one looks squeezably soft, which might offend said Dalek, but he is quite huggable. Lovely illustration!
January 15, 2012 at 9:58 pm
I am thinking I ought to make one…
January 12, 2012 at 3:04 am
Hey, I have loved this entire series! This one is great! Terrific concept and your sketch just makes the Dalek look so cuddly.
January 15, 2012 at 9:58 pm
Thanks :)
January 12, 2012 at 11:40 am
[...] It is rather difficult to fly without fairy-dust (walk with a tail, sail without a ship, fly to Neverland without someone to lead the way). I’d sort of like to finish this off and print fabric to upholster the armchair in my bedroom, but this may be part of a developing trend in which I wish other people would make my illustrations real for me. [...]
January 12, 2012 at 6:31 pm
My favourite character in that book was the Skin Horse. I so wanted my toys to become real…
But this Dalek is delightful. A cuddly Dalek … my brain may implode.
January 15, 2012 at 9:58 pm
My work here is… continuing according to plan.
January 24, 2012 at 7:59 pm
World domination by the end of the year…