Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will know where everything should be. Somehow it doesn’t work out quite as he had planned…
Sometimes the characters you have in your head take on a life of their own and do unexpected things. I was writing a story about another pig entirely, a very noisy pig called Geoffrey.
Geoffrey Pig
Henry tidies
Henry tsks
Henry draws
Henry’s farm
Henry’s map
Like many other illustrators I tend to enjoy roughing out the ideas and characters for a story more than completing the finished art and I think this shows in the drawings.
Horse and cow studies
Abigail roughs
Henry’s Map was chosen for the American School Library Journal’s 'Best Books List 2013'