Illustrated Children’s Book Design

Cleaning House

It’s Saturday and time to clean house! But with his little sister, La Belle, making a mess of everything he’s cleaned, will Boise ever make it to the park?

CLIENT STORY:

We have enjoyed working with the author, S. P. Williams on her first illustrated children’s book. She had started the process of self-publishing on her own, and quickly realized she was over her head. The first concept wasn’t coming together and she hoped we could help her figure it out. We were able to create the most important story board, matching the story content with the necessary illustrations to capture a child’s attention.

This delightful children’s book was digitally illustrated by Liz Duvenage. Ms. Duvenage used the app ProCreate on her iPad Pro to create the digital images. This is becoming more and more popular of an application for modern illustrators. We have several posts and videos that can help the artists create the images correctly for print applications in book.

PROJECT SCOPE:

For this book we worked with the author and the illustrator:

Recommendations for book size and format
Recommendations for best book printer and distributor
Storyboard creation (view our video guide on how to create a storyboard for free!)
Book interior layout with images and text
Choice of typography
Book cover spread layout with book description, bar code, etc.
Self-publishing assistance with book upload on KDP and IngramSpark including metadata and category decisions

Final book was published as an 8 x 10 inch paperback, 36 pages on KDP, a print replica eBook on KDP and a hardcover book with IngramSpark.