Autumn in the forest ( Jesen u šumi ) book

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AUTUMN IN THE FOREST ( JESEN U ŠUMI )

I'm very honoured that I worked on this picture book together with my mother, Sanja Pereša, who is the writer of this short story.

The goal with this picture book was to be the first reading assignment for children in the first grade. It only includes a half of the alphabet, the letters that the children are able to learn before the Christmas holidays here in Croatia.

My mother always had a passion for writhing and making stories.

I remember when I was little I would make up all sorts of fairy tales and that I would draw and she was always willing to help me write for them. So when she finally came up to me that she wanted to start writing stories for children I was more then thrilled to help her illustrate them. Because she is a teacher and works with children aged 7 to 10 years old, she was inspired to write something for her students who were 1st grade back then.

This project started in late 2020 and was finished around March in 2021. The picture book was officialy released for the public in early February of 2022.

For now I'm not sure if the picture book will be available to purchase online and translated to english, it all depends on what my mother wants. But there were some plans for that so if anyone is interested let me know and I will keep you up to date ;)

Now for the Illustrations

They were all made with ink and coloured pencils and were later edited in Adobe Photoshop.

First I will show you the original drawings and then I will jump to edited ones.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS

COVER