On her Instagram account, my wonderful book designer Melinda Martin put together this short tour of how we did the book design for Natalie and the Nazi Soldiers. This deserves a blog post, particularly here, where readers might look for a glimpse behind the scenes of this children’s book. So here goes:

First came the character development, particularly that of Natalie, the protagonist.

To create this character, my talented illustrator Ste Johnson did a few sketches. Finding the right illustrat...