![Children's book writer and illustrator Bob Graham has collaborated on or created 90-odd books.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170818065151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/y/x/k/6/image.related.landscape.460x307.gxx92u.png/1503027680736.jpg)
From a smudge to winner of best children's book
Bob Graham's prize-winning picture book Home in the Rain began as a smudge of pastel colour on a piece of copy paper. "It turned out to be a skyline of hills and then I put some dark cloud over it," he said.