 Hello everyone, and welcome to Pack Your Suitcase with Paddington. Paddington comes to London all the way from Peru, with just one small leather suitcase packed with his most treasured possessions. If you were going on a journey like Paddington, what would you pack to remind you of home? This summer, from the 7th of June until the 16th of July, the British Library are asking children across the country to create and personalise their own paper suitcase and reveal what they'd pack inside to remind them of home or a special place, using art, creative writing or collage. This new creative project for children is inspired by Paddington and powerful stories of journeys and new homes. To inspire children to take part, the British Library invited some brilliant authors and illustrators to make their own suitcases and show us what they'd pack if they were going on a journey. In this film, Alan Futter Maharan shows us his suitcase, a sketchbook, an alphabet and a map are inspired by his birthplace of Sri Lanka. Alan is colouring in an open flat paper pattern of a brown suitcase with blue paint. At the end, near him, he draws the top of a red head with pointy ears and decorates the corners with green leaves, ferns, yellow tropical flowers, tall grasses painted across the centrefolds of the case, dark blue and green leaves are scattered about and surrounded by larger ferns. Alan turns the case, draws a white shape, two big ears, a smiling mouth, a dark eye and a raised trunk, a smiling elephant emerges, more red petals are dotted around and the handles coloured brown. Alan has a British Library label page with a tag saying, please look after this bear, thank you. He draws a brown turtle on a label, a beach with tall palm trees on another and a clock tower in the city of Jaffna on a third, a fresh piece of paper and a new drawing using orange paint, it's a triangular shape with ragged edges, he fills it in with the orange and then covers most of it with green paint. On the edge of the shape he paints wavy blue lines, it's an island, Alan writes Sri Lanka in the middle, he puts a dot at the top of the island with the words Jaffna, he draws dotted lines across the paper revealing that it is a map of his island home, yet more paper and a quickly drawn small red sketchbook with a red ribbon bookmark and a black ribbon around it. Yellow, green, blue, red and orange crayons appear beside it, narrow black paper bands around the middle. Alan now draws some curling shapes on a fresh piece of paper in blue ink, they are letters of an alphabet, A, E, I, O and U, they are in Tamil the language of Sri Lanka, he decorates them with swirls of red paint. The case with its turtle, beach and clock-tile luggage tags is ready, cutouts of the letters, sketchbook and crayons are dropped into it, the map of Sri Lanka is folded, tied with ribbon and placed with them, fragile, this way up, is stamped across the case, and it's ready to travel.