How did you get involved with the Mystery Picture for ZuZu?
Beck Underwood, the designer and publisher of ZuZu gave me the space to present my drawings and for kids to interpret them. It is rewarding for me to read all the stories about the picture and compare them to what I was thinking when I made the picture. What was it like growing up in Prague? As a kid, I never really liked living there. The city was a little bit scary, with all of its shadowy, gloomy cobblestone streets and dark, cold cellars. I’ve been to lots of other cities but I’ve never got the same feeling like the one that I had in Prague. But nowadays I’d like to be there to visit my family. It’s hard to do that if you have a job like mine as well as kids. How did you celebrate the holidays growing up? There’s a holiday that is celebrated on December 6th called St. Nicholas Day. Parents get somebody to dress up as St. Nicholas and ask the children it they’ve been bad or good. If youve been bad, you get a lump of coal and if you’ve been good, you get a present. A few days before
