What stories did you enjoy reading when you were little?
I remember being very obsessed with Vikings when I was young. There was a Scandinavian series of books called Noggin the Nog and Nogbad the Bad and I loved it. My dad used to make up Noggin the Nog stories, which I'm sure was illegal in copyright terms, but we never published them or spread them around! I spent a lot of time trying to draw Vikings and reading about Noggin the Nog – he was my little picture book obsession when I was younger.
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