Mia & Ember: The Enchanted

Mia & Ember: The Enchanted Forest Children's Book Layout & Illustration

The client needed a children's picture book targeting young readers aged 3–8 a magical story about a girl named Mia and her enchanted fox companion Ember, set in a glowing, whimsical forest world.

They had a story concept but no visuals, no layout, and no finished book. They needed someone who could bring the entire world to life from character design to finished, print-ready pages in one cohesive creative package.

I owned the full creative execution character illustration, scene design, cover layout, interior page formatting, and print preparation were all mine to deliver.

I worked entirely in Canva, creating warm, storybook-style illustrations featuring Mia and Ember in a glowing enchanted forest filled with luminous mushrooms and fairy lights. The cover was designed with a cosy, inviting badger-and-fox reading scene to draw young readers in instantly. Interior pages balanced full-bleed illustration with clean, child-friendly typography and well-placed story text for easy parent-child read-along flow.

Full children's book production, custom cover illustration, interior scene illustrations, character design (Mia, Ember the fox), enchanted forest environment, story text layout, child-friendly typography, print-ready Canva export.

If you have a children's story idea and need someone to illustrate and format it into a finished, print-ready book I handle the full creative journey from concept to final file.