3 Feb 2018, 23:13

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A friend and I are working together on a small personal project. It’s a children’s book but probably board book size. It’s really only 4 or maybe 5 illustrations. It’s a story he tells his kids about a mouse he came across one day on the path by his house. It was a fat little guy and he tried to hide under a leaf and then behind a blade of grass before he found a rock. Anyway, he tells the story to his kids all the timeand we thought we’d do a little book.
A few questions...

  1. Does anyone have any experience with board books or short books? Especially in regards to length and number of pictures. I can’t find a pattern in the books in our house. It feels like all the rules about 4 page sets (signatures) and such are irrelevant, but I’m not sure.

  2. What do you do for a cover when there is so little content?

  3. I’m thinking square pages. Does anyone have any advice or critiques on my little idea sketches? It’s a bit unclear because of how I started with rectangle shaped boxes, but I’m thinking square. That first illustration would be a two page spread, then spot illustrations or vignettes for the next three and possibly one More illustration of the little mouse curled up safe and asleep. Thoughts?
    Sorry about the bad picture quality.