What my fellow artists and writers are up against.

The modern society within which we live is absolutely flooded with far too many easy diversions for our young children. Some of these items such as Playstion's, Nintendo's, Wii's, etc etc may very well stimulate the minds of their young users, but the problem lies right there.
The children no longer have to use their imagination, which to me is the most dreadful shame of all.
Imagination is the very soul of reading a good book, one gets to use their very own wonderful imagination whilst reading. This very reason more often than not,  makes a good book far better than its movie version. This use of their imagination is something which has definitely been lost within a large majority of our young school children during the last decade.  Please follow this discusion in the Illustrator's Blog.