After Jon and I agreed on the words in the story, they were sent to Sarah, the designer. She laid out the 96 pages of the book. This is what an early page looks like. The space across the top was left for Sam's picture.

Jon and I went through the story again, trying to make it shorter.

Sam then did pencil sketches of her ideas. These were put into the design and Jon and I looked at them and suggested changes if necessary.

Time for another rewrite. No point in saying "Worm is wearing a cowboy hat" when you can see it because it's in the picture!

Finally Sam then did proper full colour pictures. The original intention was to publish the book in two colours - red and black. It looked liked this.

But at the last minute Orion decided this didn't do justice to the illustrations. I think you'll agree, the page looks much better in full colour!