A collector’s garden catalogue
Original artwork from
The Trouble with Grandad
A selection of original illustrations created by Babette Cole for The Trouble with Grandad. Grandad’s enormous vegetables and increasingly unreasonable gardening make this one of the greenest, strangest and most gloriously overgrown worlds in the series.
Eight original illustrations currently featuredThe Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 699
A lively original from Grandad’s gloriously overgrown world. Babette turns ordinary family life and enthusiastic gardening into something wonderfully excessive, with the loose movement and comic invention that run throughout the book.
The Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 706
Green-fingered trouble, captured in Babette’s unmistakable hand. An original production illustration with the warmth, colour and beautifully unruly character that make The Trouble with Grandad so memorable.
The Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 707
A wonderfully playful piece of visual storytelling. This original artwork carries the energy of the book’s impossible garden and offers a direct connection to Babette Cole’s working process.
The Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 708
Where sensible gardening gives way to complete botanical nonsense. A bright, expressive original from the story’s world of giant produce, eccentric invention and thoroughly troublesome family life.
The Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 709
An original illustration full of movement, colour and comic character. The familiar world of home and garden is pushed somewhere delightfully ridiculous in a piece that feels unmistakably Babette.
The Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 710
Grandad’s gardening ambitions at their most wonderfully unreasonable. A distinctive production artwork combining lively line, translucent colour and the visual humour at the heart of the book.
The Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 712
A richly characterful piece from the original book artwork. Babette’s expressive drawing and unusual details turn the scene into more than an illustration—it feels like a small world still in motion.
The Trouble with Grandad – Illustration No. 713
A beautifully troublesome addition to the Grandad collection. An original working illustration with all the charm, energy and eccentric gardening spirit of The Trouble with Grandad.
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