December II, the little pot-bellied king, is about three inches tall and so fat that he can't button up his tiny red velvet coat with its magnificent ermine trim. He lives in a tiny room in a hole in the wall, its shelves piled high with countless colourful boxes, full of his dreams. In King December II's world, you are born big, knowing everything you will ever know - how to close a business deal, how to write a computer programme. And 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 and chasing shadows in the garden. Childhood comes at the end of your life but is that a good thing? Well, you'll have to ask the little king. You can ask him anything. You can lie with him on the balcony and look up at the stars and talk about immortality. And when you're with him you see things your eyes won't normally see.

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。