Illustrated novel: title page (part 1)

The next few weeks I will present five illustrations that I developed for the book A Wrinkle in Time. This is the title page with Meg and Aunt Beast, full page in black and white.

The title page illustration features Meg, the main character, being carried by an alien who helps her recover when she is almost frozen to death. The aliens live on a planet that gets hardly any light so they are blind. They also happen to have four arms with lots of tentacles. Meg fondly calls her alien caretaker Aunt Beast. It was perhaps my favorite part of the whole book, and I remember Aunt Beast fondly myself.