I love that you are still publishing! Your work makes me incredibly happy. I am an artist too and I look up to your work!
I'm sorry that the pages were so washed out, Too bad they couldn't at least print it on softer paper and make it a coloring book or something. That way you would have a reason to have such faded pictures.
Thank you, @kaylinart. That would have been an idea ahead of its time, unfortunately. You do coloring books, don't you?