For some time now, I've been getting visits, every now and again, from December II, the little pot-bellied king. He's about three inches tall and so fat that he can't button up his tiny red velvet coat with the magnificent ermine collar. "Little King December" comes from a place where, the day you are born, you wake up fully grown and fully clothed, in a suit, say. And that very first day of your life you go into your office, do some deals, write a computer programme, or sell foreign rights in a first novel. You are born big, knowing everything, but every day you get a little bit smaller and you forget a little bit more, so that at the end of your life you are tiny, and you spend your days forgetting things, eating jelly bears and chasing shadows in the garden. King December lives in a tiny room in a hole in the wall, the shelves piled high with countless colourful boxes, full of his dreams.

阿剋塞爾·哈剋（Axel Hacke）

1956 年齣生於德國布倫瑞剋。政治學專業畢業，後進入慕尼黑德國記者學校，1981 年起擔任南德日報的記者， 先後因為新聞工作獲得德國多項重要的新聞奬。

米夏埃爾·佐瓦（Michael Sowa）

1945 年齣生於柏林，畢業於柏林藝術教育學院，目前是自由插畫傢。