Doodle Pages

  I had the opportunity to illustrate a favorite children's story in college. Many Moons by James Thurber. It is about a sick princess who wants the moon. Her father, the king, is enraged when the wizards, the Lord High Chamberlain, and the mathematician court cannot get the moon. In the end, it is the jester who realizes that the princess thinks the moon is only as big as her thumbnail and made of gold, so he goes to the goldsmith, who makes a necklace with a gold sphere on it and gives it to the princess telling her it is the Moon. The King then worries that she will see the moon in the sky that night and realize that the necklace was not the real moon. The king is enraged again when the wizards, the Lord High Chamberlain, and the mathematician court cannot think of proper ways to hide the fact that the Princess does not have the Moon.   The jester is again the one to figure out what the princess is thinking. The princess thinks that whenever something is taken, it is replaced, like her tooth, a unicorn's horn and flowers