Dark Waters of Hagwood
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Robin usually includes one small, portly character in most of his books. This character is not the hero, but instead a friend or brother of the protagonist—someone a bit clumsy and a bit too fond of supper. The character is, in fact, Robin. In the Hagwood books, Robin decided to include himself as one of the principal characters for a change. And so, Gamaliel Tumpin is based on Robin when he was young, when his older sister would boss him about and make him tidy his room during the school holidays.
Robin lives in Greenwich, London, and has an old, deaf West Highland White Terrier named Sally. He has recently discovered that making monsters on the computer is much faster than using clay, plaster, glue, armature wire, fur, dental acrylic, resin, and latex, and it doesn’t make such a mess on the kitchen table.
Robin Jarvis at the age of two or three, complete with scab on his knee.
Very Gamaliel Tumpin.
Robin, age two and a half, on a caravan holiday. He was always told that the light above his head in this picture was his guardian angel. Imagine the disappointment when he realized it was the camera flash! But Robin is always ready to believe anything.
A photo of Robin from the early 1990s, holding some mole figures he made for a German commercial. The figures were used for advertising sausages. He doesn’t think the sausages were actually made from moles, but maybe …
Gamaliel under glass, to keep him safe from marauding thorn ogres and other predators.
Robin at home, thinking up some new gruesomeness.
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Cover design by Andrea C. Uva
Interior illustrations © 2013 by Robin Jarvis
Cover illustration by Robin Jarvis
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