An Invitation to the Botanic Gardens

Charlotte Guillain (Author) Charlotte says she doesn't come from anywhere because she moved around a lot when she was growing up. She always wanted to be a writer and worked as a bookseller before training to teach English as a Foreign Language. This took her to the Czech Republic and Ukraine, before she headed to Zanzibar to teach English to student nurses. On her return to the UK, Charlotte moved to Oxford where she started working in publishing before going freelance and writing children's non-fiction. She now writes picture books and young fiction, both with her husband Adam, and on her own. Helen Shoesmith (Illustrator) Helen has a degree in Graphic Arts from Liverpool John Moores University and a Masters in Illustration for Children from the North East Wales School of Art. Helen lives and works in the North West of England with her partner and two young children and when she's not drawing she's planning adventurous family days out and cosy nights in.

Invitation page • Welcome • Flowerbeds • Gatefold: Exterior glass house, interior Temperate house full of rare and threatened plants • Palm House tropical plants • Waterlily house • Carnivorous plant house • Tropical plant nursery • Compost centre • Gatefold: Exterior people collecting plants in fields, interior the Herbarium • Fungarium • Lab • Seed bank • Kitchen Garden • Conservation meadow • Gatefold: Exterior trees aboretum, interior tree gang at work treetop walkway • Children's garden • Cafe • Exit via gift shop.