After 10 minutes, the ground was a mess of destruction and I'd feel much better. Then I'd attack them - zzzooomm BLAT! BOOM! BLAT! - with long fast lines and lots of squiggles. As the youngest of four, whenever I was angry because I wasn't getting my own way, I'd go into my room, take a sheet of paper and a pencil, fill the sky with jet planes and draw soldiers all over the ground. Tashi's friend Jack's house was a blend of his own childhood home in Killara, a family home in Dungog, Anna Fienberg's backyard and the home he built for daughters Greer and Arielle at Teralba.Ī self-taught artist, Gamble began drawing as a child, "For its own sake and to get things out of my system. Gamble set the books in an Australian suburban backyard. The stories have been translated into more than 20 languages, adapted for television and won international fans including Angelina Jolie. Since the first book appeared in 1995, Tashi has become an iconic children's character with more than a million books sold in Australia and New Zealand. Iconic illustrator Kim Gamble, creator of Tashi, has died.
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