When I was younger I would always get really excited about doing a special project over the Christmas season. The holiday decorations and items would all come out of storage somewhere, and I'd dive into the books, like Ted E. Bear Saves Christmas, the Honeybears, Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters and the Grinch. Eventually I would get inspired, and go into production mode, writing and illustrating some Christmasy thing, often a book, and more often than not, getting stalled on the perfect title page. One year when I was 12, I burned the midnight oil to have my own illustrated version of Night Before Christmas, done before the big day and actually succeeded. Perhaps the sign of a budding workaholic or maybe just someone who liked Christmas, I'm still very proud of that one. With text written out in typewritter serif and alternating red and green each letter, how could I not be? About five years ago, I continued on in that tradition, doing some artwork for a small press children's book, My Best Christmas and found out that a good holiday project never loses its fun.