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Line 8: ==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 ~~“Why~~"Why don't we do books with real live little children in, with the little adventures and so on that they have in the house?" <ref name=Guardian /> ==Television series==

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