← When I was six years old, I once saw an amazing picture in a book about life in the jungle, called “True Stories”. 🔊✎
← Here is a copy of the picture: 🔊✎
← I thought a lot about the adventures of the jungle, and after a while I took a coloured pencil and drew my first picture. 🔊✎
← My picture number 1. It looked like this: 🔊✎
← The grown-up people told me I should stop drawing pictures of boa constrictors from the outside and the inside and instead concentrate on geography, history, maths and English. 🔊✎
← It’s hard to start drawing again at my age, if all you’ve ever done are two pictures of a boa constrictor from the outside and from the inside, when you were six. 🔊✎
← And one day he advised me to try my best to make a really good picture, so that children on Earth could understand what this was about. 🔊✎
← Maybe you’ll ask: “Why aren’t there any other pictures in this book as impressive as the picture of the baobabs?” 🔊✎
← Look at the picture carefully so you’re sure you’ll recognise it, if you’re ever in Africa and visit the desert. 🔊✎