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As a graphic designer and illustrator, I would like to get involved in these difficult times. The project gives me the opportunity to contribute to social interaction through creative means. These are challenging times and I would like to send a positive signal with my illustrations to help children understand this complex subject.

What I love about HopeLit is that women from very different areas of the book industry have come together to help with creativity in an unbureaucratic way. As an author, it's wonderful to see how quickly pictures are created for my texts and how different they are. Plus, I really enjoy HopeLit!

The coronavirus and the limitations it has brought with it have affected many people. For this reason we were founding this platform. Helping children. Helping children and adults to cope with their worries and fears, providing them with information as well as diversion and activities and giving them positive feelings is something I am very happy to support, and not only during this difficult time!

My illustrations are usually geared more toward the commercial sector, so I am especially happy to see projects serving a deeper purpose than just advertising things. I thought HopeLit was a nice approach to bringing a bit of color to where it is most needed at this time.

Hope is something that is very important to people. If you have hope, you also have courage - tap into this and you have the energy to overcome a lot of things! That's why I'm at HopeLit.

I'm an illustrator, author and teacher so my interests go beyond entertaining children with stories of magic, I'm more interested in encouraging, supporting and empowering them. For me, it's all about letting imaginations run wild. Because that not only brings hope, it also introduces fresh ideas and solutions - the way all my hard-working HopeLit colleagues are doing right now! I'm not able to give courses and readings at the moment and I really miss seeing childrens' eyes light up. But thanks to HopeLit I can still find a way to reach out to children and maybe touch a few hearts and offer encouragement, isn't that wonderful?

A difficult time, a time for pulling together.

I really think it is incredibly important that this situation is explained well, especially to children. And HopeLit is a big help. As an editor, I have edited many of the texts for HopeLit and think it's great to see how quickly an idea can be turned into a finished text with everyone's help. Working at HopeLit is a lot of fun and I think we are helping to improve the situation for parents and children.

The idea of HopeLit appealed to me straight away. I am a psychologist and author and would like to contribute in two areas. Having worked for many years with children and adolescents in a counseling and therapeutic capacity, I read texts to determine their suitability for children of certain age groups. I especially want to see girls and boys featuring in the texts as well as adult women and men. As an author, I like to write poems for children.

The idea behind HopeLit simply appealed to me - explaining the current situation to children, parents and anybody else who is interested in what we can do and offering support. Plus, giving is always a great feeling, even if it's just a small picture that makes somebody smile. It is just great when you can give pleasure to others through your artwork, to illustrate or explain something.

It's great that people are there for each other in these difficult times. If I can also play a small part in this and my pictures make someone's time at home a little more pleasant, then I'm very happy.

We might not be able to meet in person. But we can read to each other! I am incredibly grateful - especially now that Corona is turning our everyday life upside down - that thanks to the Internet and its possibilities, we are able to find and share information. Keeping me distracted and entertained. Learning other points of view and perspectives in fascinating, entertaining, funny or thought-provoking texts. And that's exactly what HopeLit makes possible - that's why I'm here!

I hope to awaken children's interest in reading and coloring. Ideally, the project could perhaps help parents to explain our current situation more easily and allow children to see that other children are in a similar situation. We are doing this on a voluntary basis because parents deserve this modest support regardless of their financial situation.

I support the HopeLit project with my illustrations and drawings because I think it's great that difficult situations are explained to children through tales and stories. I hope to make their difficult everyday life a bit more colorful.

I am joining HopeLit because as an illustrator I want to do something to help all people - young and old - to find support and guidance during the corona period.

I am a HopeLit friend so I can bring you a little, colorful treat via your printer. I have illustrated for you old and new sayings for challenging times. We should use these special circumstances creatively to try to find answers to our questions.

I have been with HopeLit from the beginning. And it has been exciting to see over and over again what can be done as a team in these crazy times. I am happy if this idea can be used to help people - regardless of their age or background.

There is a Turkish saying: "Hayat en güzel hediye" - Life is the greatest gift. One of the next best gifts you can give to someone else is hope. I am very pleased to be part of this hope-building project.

The decision to join HopeLit was based on a feeling of wanting to contribute something positive in these difficult times. My goal is to provide visual support for the stories of hope and I would like all visitors to this site to enjoy our contributions and be as optimistic as we are.

I want to give hope and would love my illustrations and pictures to help, even when things are difficult. HopeLit is a great way for me to make them accessible to as many people as possible, to share creativity and hope as well as to bring art and color into the home.