CHILDRENS BOOKS
I illustrate children’s books alongside my mum, Tess Osborne. We work with Austin Macauley Publishers and Little Steps Publishing. Please feel free to visit our website for more about our work together.
The Big Wall Feeling
The Big Wall Feeling is a story about two families in neighbouring houses who are divided by a hedge between their homes, and what that hedge represents. On one side of the hedge, Mum, Dad and Jacob live together with their cat, Marley, somewhere in Australia. When new neighbours move in next door, although they have the identical family set up (but no cat), their perceived differences passively prevent there being any contact between the families. Only Marley doesn’t notice this “big wall feeling” and moves happily between the families, until the night of the big storm…
Just Like Me
A little girl meets a new friend and notices all the similarities they share. Just Like Me was inspired by a memory Tess has of Zoe coming home from kindergarten, telling Tess about her new friend who was “Just like me!”. This little girl was in fact, on the surface, not “just like” Zoe at all and yet, where it mattered, they were exactly the same. As adults, we find it easy to fixate on the differences between one another rather than notice and treasure that which brings us together. Through rich, colourful illustrations and powerful words, this story brings to life the concept of human connection.
