Children's Book- Rattypunzel

Now that this project is over I can honestly say that I have learned a lot. I have never designed a children’s book or even wrote one. I have not done any type of collage for a long time and I have never worked with illustrations so it was a new experience for me. I struggled a lot at first with my illustrations and I just couldn’t seem to wrap my head around what I wanted to do. I could picture in my head what I wanted it to look like but I couldn’t make it look that way. I tried cutting and gluing everything by hand and I tried doing more of a digital illustration. In the end I went with a little mix. I did a lot of research by looking at book and different collages and talking with my group members. I looked at collage books and even regular books. I asked a lot of people for opinions on what they thought would look good and I even got some help with the story. I mostly tried to think of what my son and my nieces and nephews, all between ages 1 and 8, would like in a book and I tried to design it around them. All of my typography is cut by hand and then scanned in and I placed each letter. The illustrations are collaged digitally and I think my illustrations came along way. My design is simple and very fitting for kids I think. I tried to vary the scale of the typography to help add interest to certain words and I tried to make the typography flow with the page and the design. I went with a fold out to add more to the illusion that her hair goes on for a long distance. The finished product has 24 pages and then the fold out and is an 8x8 book. I feel like this is a good size for kids because it is big enough to see everything and be fun but its not so big that they can’t hold it in their lap. I’m happier with how it turned out but I would still like to work with this more and change some stuff since this was a pretty quick project.