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    The illustrator Annie Wilkinson was born in Saskatchewan and is self-taught. She moved to Vancouver to pursue music and discovered illustration could be a career. Her book "The Night the Forest Came to Town" tells of nature transforming a cold, concrete town overnight. It was meaningful for her and a challenge to illustrate due to its nighttime setting. She is currently working on an atlas of Canada and a graphic novel about motherhood.

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    The illustrator Annie Wilkinson was born in Saskatchewan and is self-taught. She moved to Vancouver to pursue music and discovered illustration could be a career. Her book "The Night the Forest Came to Town" tells of nature transforming a cold, concrete town overnight. It was meaningful for her and a challenge to illustrate due to its nighttime setting. She is currently working on an atlas of Canada and a graphic novel about motherhood.

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    The illustrator Annie Wilkinson was born in Saskatchewan and is self-taught. She moved to Vancouver to pursue music and discovered illustration could be a career. Her book "The Night the Forest Came to Town" tells of nature transforming a cold, concrete town overnight. It was meaningful for her and a challenge to illustrate due to its nighttime setting. She is currently working on an atlas of Canada and a graphic novel about motherhood.

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    Picture Book Charles Ghigna Illus

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    The illustrator Annie Wilkinson was born in Saskatchewan and is self-taught. She moved to Vancouver to pursue music and discovered illustration could be a career. Her book "The Night the Forest Came to Town" tells of nature transforming a cold, concrete town overnight. It was meaningful for her and a challenge to illustrate due to its nighttime setting. She is currently working on an atlas of Canada and a graphic novel about motherhood.

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    Annie

    Wilkinson

    The Night
    the Forest
    Came to
    Town
    About the Illustrator

    I was born in Saskatchewan, and am


    the youngest of 8, with 5 older brothers
    and two sisters. I originally moved to
    Vancouver in my early twenties because
    the band I was in couldn’t find a
    Email the permanent drummer. I have been
    Illustrator: drawing my whole life, but never
    [email protected] thought it could be a career until I was
    given a job illustrating for Robeez baby
    shoes, who saw my work after I applied
    Illustrator’s
    to be their web designer. I have ever
    Website: been to art school, am self-taught and I
    www.anniewilkinson.com do all my work digitally, using an iPad.
    Along with drawing and raising my two
    children, I still play in bands and play
    coed softball in the summer.
    About the Book
    The Night the Forest Came to Town takes place in a
    somewhat cold and concrete town, where
    one night seeds blow in and take root. By morning the town
    has been transformed by flowers,
    trees and animals. This book was particularly meaningful for
    me as I’m concerned about the
    impact humans have had on the planet, and there is
    something hopeful in the idea that nature
    can still flourish around us. It was also particularly a
    challenge because so much of the story
    Illustrator’s Tip: happens at night, and generally my illustrations tend
    towards the bright colour palettes! I had
    to coerce a few friends to go out with me to do some
    It took me a long time to let
    nighttime urban sketching in preparation.
    myself get really loose with
    sketching - I would always
    start
    wanting it to look like a What’s Next?
    finished piece right of the bat.
    I finally realized it’s best to An atlas of Canada for French publisher Anjou - I’m
    let your very learning some things about my own
    first sketches be ugly. country! Just for fun, I am working on a graphic novel about
    motherhood, but this will take a
    long time to finish!

    Other Books by the Author

    The Secret Garden (Ladybird books)


    Peter Pan (Ladybird books)
    The Art Lesson (Kar-Ben Publishing) - winner of a 2018
    Bank Street Best books for children
    award
    2019-2020
    www.chocolatelilyawards.com

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