A few months ago I was informed that my
illustrations for the book "Old shoes of Mr. Minasa" won the
Ben-Yitzhak honorable mention. The award is given by the Israel museum once
every two years and granted primarily on the basis of the illustration's
quality.
Last rainy Friday I had the honor to
participate in the special ceremony held in the children's wing in the museum.
I shook hands, smiled, listened to the fascinating speech-lecture of the first
award winner but the meaning of the winning remained incomprehensible to me.
One of my "fame duties" was to write
a letter addressed to the museum's children wing about anything I want and to
draw anything I want. All the letters are displayed alongside the winning books
in the special exhibition in the museum's library. I chose to make a reproduction of one of my first illustrations- inventions as a
child: a weightlifter with refreshening dumbbells.
