
Tom Percival: 'I had a pretty turbulent childhood'
Tom Percival might have been illustrating and writing children’s books for almost 20 years, but this will be his first Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Speaking from inside his writing shed, Percival sounds upbeat at the prospect of joining the molto bene throng inside the BolognaFiere Exhibition Centre. “I’m hoping it’ll be a big jolly and I can sit around and eat ice cream, but my diary is looking pretty full,” he says.