Sylvia Morris

@sylviamorris.com.au

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sylvia.a.morris@gmail.com www.sylviamorris.com.au likes: maths, languages, sports, and detective stories.

Book cover for Bear to the Rescue. By Romane Cristescu and Nic Gill. Illustrated by Sylvia Morris. A dog wearing a coat and boots smiles out at us from a burned landscape. Two koalas look down from a tree.
Digital illustration, soft blue and purple hues: A family stops in the gap between two townhouses to point and look up at a white spot, moving across the sky. In the centre, one member of the family, a young girl, looks down instead, into the light of a torch she's shining directly into her own face.
A photo of a watercolour collage: Bright orange coral against a turquoise background. A patterned shark tail swishes away from an egg case tangled up in the coral.
A peaceful forest scene. A huge, big-eyed dragonfly with intricate wings is flying in the foreground, with another following behind. In a little patch of sunlight, a girl is standing watching them. She's carrying bags and a big stick, like an explorer. Some paragraphs of text are blurred out, and there's a vertical line down the centre of the image.
Sketchbook: many similar little paintings of crowns and swords in greyscale.
A woman in medieval headscarf, with sword, rides out of frame into the light. A heavily decorated crown falls away from her into the darkness. (Fun fact: The crown is based on Blanche of Lancaster's.) It's all greyscale, with layered watercolour and fading silhouettes. Text in yellow: The Queen.
Text: The End
We are looking up the shaft of a sword at an awkward, hesitant(?) man wearing a crown and holding a flag. In the background a shovel points upwards, and an arrow down. Text in white: The King. All greyscale, watercolour, made of silhouettes and fading outlines.
A cauldron is bubbling. The cloaked person at the cauldron holds two vials in their hand. Text in blue: The Witch. All greyscale, watercolour, made of silhouettes and fading outlines.
A princess sits in a shaft of light, sewing a pair of pants. In the foreground are a pair of boots. Text in blue: The Princess. All greyscale, watercolour, made of silhouettes and fading outlines.
A woman weeps by a pile of rocks. A spade is in her hand. In the distant background a castle looms out of the mist. Text in maroon: The Peasant. All greyscale, watercolour, made of silhouettes and fading outlines.
A man at a desk stares down at his papers. His arms are by his side. He is wearing a livery collar. Behind him is a wall of writing, fading into fire against a night sky. Text in maroon: The Advisor. All greyscale, watercolour, made of silhouettes and fading outlines.
A young boy is high up in a tree, huddling against a branch. Below him, on the ground in harsh light, a man is kneeling before a tree stump. The king, with a sword, and a crowd of men, stand behind him. All greyscale, watercolour, made of silhouettes and fading outlines. Text: The Child. The text is yellow (it was for the last illo too, sorry!)
A man comically and dramatically trips over a tree root. Three arrows fall around him, a bow flies up above him. He is in a forest. In the background, between the trees, a unicorn rears up. Text: The Squire. All greyscale, watercolour, made of silhouettes and fading outlines.
A greyscale splotchy watercolour background. Neatly, formally handwritten i white over the top: The Troubled Kingdom, a portrait.
A dark grey, textured background is flecked with spats of white. A watercolour skeleton walks cautiously out of the nothingness.
A watercolour and coloured pencil illustration: A friendly, stylised grey heron flies over a green and orangey landscape, scattered with trees and small lakes. It is flying from right to left, from stormy skies to blue skies. A boardwalk threads through the scene, and a girl on the boardwalk looks up at the heron. We are looking down on the scene, and the perspective warps the horizon into a curve, suggesting the landscape is stretching out forever. Hand painted text: Ķemeru nacionālais parks.
A cropped out photo of myself, dressed up as Lily from When the Stars Come Out, on a twilight sky watercolour background. Annotations: Blue hair clip, orange/yellow top, denim shorts (jeans/leggings for cold weather), torch.
A watercolour painting of a baby being swept up in their mother's arms and laughing.
Text: 5-8 years, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2025. The book cover for When the Stars Come Out. And the main character, with a small smile, looking up at the book cover.
A hand-drawn, pencil and watercolour illustration of girls playing Australian Rules football. Two vignettes of the one character, kicking and chasing the ball. One of another character marking the ball. There is also a vignette of an ibis searching through a school bag. Text: SYLVIA MORRIS, sylvia.a.morris@gmail.com, www.sylviamorris.com.au
A watercolour and coloured pencil illustrated landscape from a high viewpoint. A pale boardwalk curves through a flat green landscape, scattered with trees and lakes. The sky is cloudy.
Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2025, 5-8 years. There are ten books listed, including When the Stars Come Out, by Tanya Hill and Sylvia Morris.
A photo of a tall waterfall on a cliff in the sun, framed by the shade of lush trees.
A photo with wildflowers in foreground, against dark pines, and behind those, in the distance, are snow-capped mountains.
A book cover: Found You! by Jane Godwin and illustrated by Sylvia Morris. In the centre, a young boy is covering his eyes and smiling with an open mouth. Four other children are running out of the room behind him.
Book cover: The Best Hiding Place (by Jane Godwin & Sylvia Morris) with CBCA Shortlisted Book sticker. It shows a house in cross-section, with children each in different rooms.