This illustration is from Never Say A Mean Word Again, a picture book I designed and illustrated in 2014, written by Jacqueline Jules and published by Wisdom Tales Press. The story takes place a thousand years ago in medieval Spain, but the theme is contemporary: two boys who start out as enemies end up being friends. How do they resolve their conflict? Well, the story begins with a clumsy collision between the youngsters, after which Hamza launches angry insults at the ungainly Samuel, and storms out of the palace banquet. The aggrieved Samuel, son of none other than the king's own vizier, is paradoxically ordered by his father to take charge of the situation and to