# Paradiso

- Category: paperback
- Year: 2026
- Status: In development
- Tape: VHS-0008

- Discipline: Writing, Illustration
- Format: Children's book · in development
- Year: 2026

An illustrated children's book in development, following a small angel across a world of changing light, landscape, and scale.

## A small angel leaves the city above the clouds.

Paradiso is an illustrated children's book in development. The existing sequence moves from a golden city through sea, desert, snow and forest before arriving in a vast grey city below.

![The angel loses his footing at the edge of the clouds.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-02.jpg)

![The angel falls away from the golden city.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-03.jpg)

![A blue whale finds the angel in the sea.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-04.jpg)

![The whale brings the angel to a desert shore and a waiting camel.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-05.jpg)

![The angel and camel set out across the desert.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-06.jpg)

![The travellers reach a palm-lined oasis.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-07.jpg)

![The angel and camel pass through a sparse stand of desert trees.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-08.jpg)

![The angel rides from warm desert light into a white winter landscape.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-09.jpg)

![A polar bear watches the angel and camel crossing the snow.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-10.jpg)

![The polar bear raises a paw to greet the travellers.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-11.jpg)

![The polar bear carries the angel toward a green forest.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-12.jpg)

![The angel rides the polar bear along a forest path.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-13.jpg)

![A fox waits for the angel and polar bear among the trees.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-14.jpg)

![The angel and fox look toward a distant city.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-15.jpg)

![The angel stands at the threshold of the pale city.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-16.jpg)

![The small angel walks among grey-clad people in the rain.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-17.jpg)

![The angel faces a solitary man against the dark city skyline.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-18.jpg)

![The angel lies in a shaft of light on the forest floor.](/assets/images/paradiso/spread-20.jpg)