ACHUKA Authorfile: Helen Cooper
My hair colour: Dark brown.
My eye colour: Green.
My shoe size: 5.
My star sign: If you believe in that junk, you should be able to tell from the way I've answered the questions.
My favourite book when child: The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge , Brian Wildsmiths' Nursery Rhymes, because of the colours, and like everyone else I loved C.S Lewis' Narnia Books.
My favourite fictional character: I can't do just one. Little Nemo from Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland; The Smallest Chinese Mushroom from Disneys Fantasia; The Rabbit from Walt Kelly's Pogo; Gerda from The Snow Queen; Nosey the dwarf from Hauff's Fairy Tales; Alice (Lewis Carrol); Reepicheep (C.S Lewis) and Carbonel (Barbara Sleigh).
Books that inspired me to become a writer: The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (see above); Brian Wildsmith's Mother Goose; Narnia; Andrew Lang's coloured books of Fairy tales; Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle; and everything illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
My favourite author: Nancy Mitford (grown up writer)
My ideal reading position: On the sofa.
My usual means of marking a place in a book: Memory.
My favourite time of year: Autumn.
My favourite time of day: Pudding time.
My best time for working: Morning and late at night.
The first piece of work I was paid for was: 'Kit and the Magic Kite'.
My favourite TV show: The Simpsons.
My favourite song: 'Feel the Brain' by Brian Dewan.
My favourite actor: Grommit (Nick Park's claymation dog)
The creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: My piano.
My favourite sweet food: Chocolate.
My favourite savory food: Potato.
My typical bedtime is: Pre Pandora 2.00 a.m, post Pandora 11.00 p.m
My favourite year of childhood: 6.
My mousemat design: Don't have one.
The tidiest place in my home is: Ted's desk.
The untidiest place in my home is: My desk.
The working tool I would least like to do without: Pencil and tracing paper.