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.

阿克塞尔·哈克（Axel Hacke）

1956 年出生于德国布伦瑞克。政治学专业毕业，后进入慕尼黑德国记者学校，1981 年起担任南德日报的记者， 先后因为新闻工作获得德国多项重要的新闻奖。

米夏埃尔·佐瓦（Michael Sowa）

1945 年出生于柏林，毕业于柏林艺术教育学院，目前是自由插画家。