Katie’s drawing is inspired by The Essex Serpent novel, which won the British Book Awards Book of the Year in 2016, is set in a fictional village called Aldwinter, on the edge of the Blackwater marshes, near Colchester. Colchester creature Essex Serpent Related Magic Dust in Thaxted, By Caroline Elliot Essex’s First Crocodile, Alexandra Podgorska 16 Humpty Dumpty, by Jessica Pearce A True Ghost Story by Sam Helmers The Green Man by Jeremy Tilston