I wasn’t intending to write the Tales
When I visited Nepal and India, collecting stories was not in my mind
I’ve written before about my trip in India and Nepal where I came across the material for Tales for Great Grandchildren. The strange thing is that collecting stories was not in my mind at all on that trip: I was more concerned with photographing butterflies. I took 1450 photographs with colour film. Some 900 of them were good. (Above 10,000 feet there is little dust in the atmosphere, which certainly helps with the taking of good photographs.)
When I got back, I created a mock-up of a coffee table book which I titled The Butterfly Walk. That came into the hands of a book packager. But she was interested not in my butterfly photos but in my telling of a myth about the origin of Kathmandu (You will duly find Cheppu within the Tales).
Elsie, the book packager, thought that I wrote in a way that would attract children and encouraged me to do more. That is how the stories in Tales for Great Grand Children came to be written.
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