Actually, I don’t think it’s bad for a children’s book. Whimsical and fun cover. Genre/target readership is obvious. I think kids and parents would be enticed enough to pick up a hardcopy or open an ebook sampler.
But… I’d eliminate or reduce the blue border, get rid of the white design work in the blue, ditch the black outline, expand the art to fill the entire cover or almost all of it, make the tagline bigger, and make the author/illustrator text bigger and white. Font choices could be better, too.
I agree that the style of the art isn’t awful, it’s just the fact that it was so obviously done on MS paint that bugs me. If it looked like someone used real paint to do it, I would be okay with that. As it happens…
Michael Waller
10 years ago
The cover reminds me more of Molière’s “Tartuffe or the Imposter” than of pirates.
Actually, I don’t think it’s bad for a children’s book. Whimsical and fun cover. Genre/target readership is obvious. I think kids and parents would be enticed enough to pick up a hardcopy or open an ebook sampler.
But… I’d eliminate or reduce the blue border, get rid of the white design work in the blue, ditch the black outline, expand the art to fill the entire cover or almost all of it, make the tagline bigger, and make the author/illustrator text bigger and white. Font choices could be better, too.
I agree that the style of the art isn’t awful, it’s just the fact that it was so obviously done on MS paint that bugs me. If it looked like someone used real paint to do it, I would be okay with that. As it happens…
The cover reminds me more of Molière’s “Tartuffe or the Imposter” than of pirates.