I usually like to create new illustrations for the IF topic. But I knew I had this one in my files and thought I'd use it. It is from a story that I illustrated in a magazine called Stories for Children. The story is about a young boy who spends the weekend with his grandparents. The first night he hears someone calling his name from the den. The second night he hears it again. By now he's getting freaked out, but nervously tries to investigate. In his trepidation he clumsily trips over a table outside the den. It turns out, his grandparents were trying to teach a parakeet to say the boy's name as a birthday gift. Even the bird is peeking his head out of the den to check out all the comotion :o)
