a character designer and an illustrator. my pages in the book are about when our protagonist is told that he is going to be a father, and he's really happy, really thrilled about it and has a surprised look on his face, and then he embraces his partner. these books are extremely important and i wish actually that this type of book could had been around when i was a teenager. i think it would have been really affirming. i wanted a book that celebrates all of our different styles, our variety and just, to an extent, a lot of our culture as well. and i think that this book has managed to do that in a most magnificent way. large parts of the northern hemisphere have seen a partial solar eclipse today. the moon travelled directly in front of the sun in what is called an annular eclipse — leaving just a thin sliver of sunlight visible. our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. an eclipse at sunrise in the united states. one of nature's most dazzling sights — the moon gliding