#6

He works a lot with their daughter now. I met him a couple of years ago and I’m happy to say he’s as lovely as you’d hope. I got him to write a message to my mum in a copy of the book he was promoting and gave it to her for Christmas and she sobbed. Great stuff.

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#7

I have no idea on this one.

#8

To address your question @eems, I’m not super familiar with Peepo, but this blog talks about the sub-story (the dad is preparing to go to war), and suggests the picture is of Winston Churchill, but states it’s the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes, which it clearly isn’t:

#9

Can you not ask him the answer to @eems’s question?

#10

I wrote ‘cookiness’ and I’ll keep it but of course I meant ‘kookiness’.

#11

Further to this, I also believe you are mistaken about the second flag, it doesn’t look like a Uruguayan flag at all, but an early flag of El Salvador:

#12

Sadly, as it was Janet who did the illustrations, I’m not sure he’d be able to enlighten us :cry:

#13

Imagine Churchill wearing a trilby!

#14

Fuck off mate. The blue on that flag is completely wrong and the latest one was abandoned in 1912 - the book is clearly set in the 40s.

#15

What shall I do after that?

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#16

And in what way does it resemble ANY flag that the proud nation of Uruguay has ever flown?

#17

Well I’m sure he’d know due to the story side. Maybe not .

#18

I’ve been done there. That outfit is spot on. So it’s Churchill, and I’d now suggest Janet simply got the us flag wrong/the printers fucked it/something like that, and the blog is basically correct

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#20

Just seen in the Wikipedia article on them that the baby in Peepo is meant to be Allan Ahlberg himself, so maybe he would know?

#21

Yeah, I think that’s the most likely scenario, hard to imagine she accidentally inverted the colours of the Stars and Stripes, but there you go.

#22

Top left is clearly red in the illustration though.

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#23

Looks like the Uruguayan flag to me, too.

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#24

errrm

  • on the wind-up
  • should’ve gone to specsavers

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#25

Ok mystery solved. It’s supposed to be the US flag but looks like the Uruguayan.

NEXT: they did this on purpose didn’t they…

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