As part of my work for Lilla Roger’s online course ‘Illustrating Children's Books’, I chose to illustrate the text ‘Grandma’s Garden’ by Zoe Tucker. It is a sweet, emotional story that beautifully evokes the feeling of seasons passing and the circle of life. I imagined the main character, Coral, to be a thoughtful, sensitive and somewhat otherwordly little girl and Grandma Pearl to be a bit of an eccentric gypsy with a wild past. You can see here how much the characters evolved over the five weeks.