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==Origin==
In an interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref name=Guardian>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/audioslideshow/2010/oct/28/topsy-tim-jean-adamson |title=Jean Adamson: Living with Topsy and Tim |date=2 November 2010 |first1=Michelle |last1=Pauli |first2=Linda |last2=Nylind |first3=Pascal |last3=Wyse |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Jean Adamson said that she and her future husband had been trained as book illustrators at [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]]. They decided to get married and quit their jobs in order to write and illustrate their own children's books. Their approach was shaped by a visit to a children's bookshop in Newcastle where they realised that there were few books depicting actual contemporary children. She explained that the books were also influenced by the post-war mood:
:At that time, not so terribly long after the end of the war, England was just waking up, bright colours were coming in, there was a lovely optimistic feeling in the air. So I said
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