. “There is nothing better than visiting art galleries as often as you can,” he says. “If this isn’t possible, then going to the library and looking through art books with your child is wonderful, too.” Bruna is clearly a perfectionist and colour

. During that time, I had just one book – about Van Gogh – which I looked at literally thousands of times. Then, eventually after the war, when I visited Paris, I was able to go and see those Van Gogh paintings for real. It was a wonderful moment

to find a different kind of children’s book and had suggested a story to his publisher about a worm eating through the pages. In the story, the newly hatched caterpillar starts to look for food. On day one he eats one piece of fruit, the next two, the next

rabbit and a horse – who have a dressing up contest. What inspired it?“Often children ask, ‘Have you done a horse or a mouse?’, and I’d always wanted a horse in my books because they are nice to draw. I chose them for the illustrations really