Illustrating a story

I am just mid way through illustrating a story for brilliant childrens magazine Anorak. Its a real challenge for me - I always like to tell some kind of story in my work, but I guess my brief is to translate the words into pictures The other challenging aspect is to o figurative work, which, if you haven't noticed, is not something I often do! I guess we'll wait and see how it turns out. This is an island that the characters visit on their travels...