AT HIS HOME in the countryside of Hampshire, England, illustrator and author Peter Suart has a library housing an excellent collection of books. These are the books he enjoys reading and having around him while working.
But things were different when he was an adolescent. As a teenager, Suart never went near these books, and most were left on the shelves to collect dust.
'I was no longer interested in reading. I didn't have a love of learning,' recalled the author and illustrator of three books - The Love Of Learning, Where Is The World? and The Storm.
Ironically, it was this experience which led Suart, who spent his formative years in Hong Kong, to write The Love Of Learning, the third instalment of his Tik and Tok adventure book series.
The 40-year-old author was in town recently to give two talks at the Fringe Club on his literary creations Tik and Tok - a little boy and his dog.
'If you have a love of learning, in general, I think you get interested in the world, people and everything,' the Jamaican-born author said.