Publishing

This gallery includes book cover illustrations and samples of children’s books in progress, focused on wildlife, friendship, compassion and stories with a spark of fantasy. As an aspiring children’s book author and illustrator, I’d love to hear from anyone interested in supporting me to get my books published – please contact me at contact.megancox@gmail.com if interested!

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‘Shelter 4 Friends’

2026
Children’s book seeking publishing – Please contact me at contact.megancox@gmail.com if interested!

Spider, Bird, Deer and Bear – 4 forest friends try to keep out of the rain, but then... Huff! Crack! Boom!

a patterned illustration from children's book characters of a bear, a deer, a bird, a spider and water drops
a children's book illustration of a bear, a deer, a bird and a spider under a small shelter in a forest in the rain
a children's book illustration of a close up low angle of a bear, a deer, a bird and a spider

‘Baa’s Quilt’

2026
Children’s book in progress – Please contact me at contact.megancox@gmail.com if interested!

Baa the sheep knits coats from her wool for her friends on Cosy Fields, but ends up with none herself until her friends all come to her rescue!

a children's book illustration of a field with farm animals sitting around a large sheep who is knitting a jumper from her own wool
a children's book illustration of a duck and chicken peeking into a barn where a tired old sheep is laying on a bed of hay
a children's book illustration of farm and forest animals waking up under a large shared quilt

Children’s Books Trilogy Series in Order

2026
Children’s book trilogy in progress – Please contact me at contact.megancox@gmail.com if interested!

I’ve got your nose! Help Max, the elephant, Twee, the owl, and Cap, the crab, follow the scent to find their lost noses. Meet many animals with their tremendous diversity of snouts and smellers along the way.

a children's book illustration of an elephant that has lost it's trunk, standing in a forest
a children's book illustration of an owl that has lost it's beak sitting on the back of an elephant, surrounded by mountains
a children's book illustration of a crab standing on a treasure chest full of animal noses and an owl and elephant searching the distance

Children’s Book Trilogy of Separate Stories

2026
Children’s book collection in progress – Please contact me at contact.megancox@gmail.com if interested!

Animal species, their funny habits and rhyming adventures – ‘Mogo Loves His Slope’, ‘Bun Is Always Squashed’, and ‘Tea Strikes a Pose’.

a children's book illustration of a mountain goat standing on a mountain on the right side, and a mountain goat standing on the moon on the left side
a children's book illustration of a mountain goat called Mogo
a children's book illustration of a mountain goat standing on mountains
a children's book illustration of a squashed cat
a children's book illustration of a cat called Bun
a children's book illustration of a cat camouflaged sleeping in between loaves of bread on a shelf
a children's book illustration of an anteater standing in a T pose
a children's book illustration of an anteater called Tea
a children's book illustration of an anteater standing in the same pose through the sun, rain and snow

Children’s Book Covers

2025
Redesigning Classic Ladybird Books

a children's book illustration of a boy holding a vine to climb a beanstalk to the sky
a children's book illustration of two elves building shoes on a desk
a children's book illustration of a girl standing in a pot of porridge that has overflowed and flooded her home
a children's book illustration of three goats and a troll

Children’s Book Concept Illustrations

2025

a children's book illustrations of an octopus using it's ears as wings to jump out of the sea and fly to the sky surrounded with birds
a children's book illustration of a boy and lion in a field of tall sunflowers
a children's book illustration of an alligator chomping on a surprised girl's dress

Maze Book Concept Contents Page

2023
HarperCollins Design Academy

an illustration of a contents page for a maze book with tunnels leading to burrowing animals

24 Character Illustrations

2025

twenty four illustrated animal characters with big eyes

Book Covers

2023
HarperCollins Design Academy

a book cover illustration of a unicorn skull, books and a lantern on a desk in between stylised mist
a book cover illustration of a whale highlighted by the glowing water surface
chapter 1 of the book 'Of Mice and Men' with a design drop cap of the first letter 'A'
black and white drop cap of the letter 'A', designed with a heron, lizard and rabbit
black and white drop cap of the letter 'T', designed with a heron and two snakes
a book cover illustration of a mouse and rabbit in the foreground sitting beside grass and a stream, and silhouettes of two men and a ranch in the background
a book cover illustration of a stylised bird, lizard and capybara on rectangular coloured sections

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