Roger Essley

If you are looking for stories, or you'd like to see how I make a picture books, this is the place.

I've put together a page of picture book illustrations and links where you'll see more stuff about making pictures and where stories come from.


In Reunion two boys are fooling around in a model-T car and it takes off down the hill.
The idea came from one of my Grandpa's stories about the first cars and horse poop.... Take a look at the book and when you get to the car picture you'll find a link to my grandpa's story.


Here's a picture from a story about a car in a junk yard that's never been published. It is in dummy book form, that means a book I stapled together to show what a final book might look like. I made several watercolor illustrations to show what the finished pictures would look like.

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