In a busy harbor, in the faraway island of Hong Kong, there is a floating restaurant. This restaurant is home to Chopsticks, a tiny gray mouse. Chopsticks befriends a wooden dragon who wants to fly. On the night of the full moon, during Chinese New Year, they share a high-flying adventure with the help of Old Fu, the dragon’s creator.
Jon Berkeley was born in Dublin at a time when there were no bootprints on the moon. He was educated by stern men with elbow patches, in a school where you were allowed go to the bathroom only if you asked in Irish.
At the age of two he picked up a pencil and began to draw. He drew dragons, giants, oddballs, castles, car races and lost aliens. He drew everything, in fact, except horses. Their back legs go funny in the middle, he says, and he still gives them a miss whenever he can.
Jon has worked for over twenty five years as a freelance illustrator, cartoonist and occasional columnist in Sydney, Hong Kong, London and Dublin, and now lives in a small town near Barcelona with his wife, Orna, and their five children, along with nine cats (at the last count) and two vintage dogs.
He illustrates for Time magazine, The Sunday Times, Newsweek and The Economist among many others, and writes when he's not illustrating. He wrote and illustrated CHOPSTICKS, the story of a friendship between a mouse and a dragon.
Jon is the author of THE WEDNESDAY TALES, a series of three books about a boy who lives in a barrel, a four-hundred-year-old girl with wings, a blind explorer and a talking tiger.
The first book of his new series, BELL HOOT FABLES, was released in Februrary 2010. It's called The Hidden Boy.
