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Boy author William Robson had no trouble writing his soon-to-be-published novel for children, a trilogy called Earth II
Boy author William Robson had no trouble writing his soon-to-be-published novel for children, a trilogy called Earth II

Boy author William Robson had no trouble writing his soon-to-be-published novel for children, a trilogy called Earth II

Date8/4/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Boy author William Robson had no trouble writing his soon-to-be-published novel for children, a trilogy called Earth II. He whipped off the writing chore in the matter of a month and a half while he was still only 9 years old, but the illustrations were another matter - they had to be redone for reproduction, and as William says: I went half out of my mind doing the illustrations. I just kept getting in tempers and everything. I didn't know getting published would be so much work. Some results are shown here.
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