A sweet and commercial middle grade chapter book with the following ingredients: a beach vacation, a misbehaving blender, a mischievous little brother, and a wedding. I created the series logo with confection and baked goods in mind. Illustrations are by newcomer Brooke Bointon Hughes. The cover has been so embraced that we signed up a second and third book in the series. 

The adorable follow-up to book 1!
 

A Victorian-era middle grade adventure starring a young chimney sweep who stumbles into the “Odditorium”, an anthropomorphic building with a supernatural stock of magical and mythical characters and magical objects. After considering several more traditional illustrated cover ideas, we ultimately decided to do something that we hadn’t seen before on a middle grade cover: a paper sculpture. The model, created by a paper sculptor in the UK, is as intricate and fantastical as the story and took three months to construct. I corresponded with the sculptor frequently and provided intensive art direction to help bring the scene to life.

A middle grade novel by breakout author Kirsten Hubbard about a boy who is struggling to break free from his survivalist step-father and save his family. The writing is exceptional and the story is very strange, so I wanted the cover to be really different. The kids in the story play a game called World Building, in which they build model houses and towns. The bird and the bike are significant in the story. We commissioned the model to be built and shot, and now it is on display in our office. 

An upper middle grade about a girl who is trapped in a boy’s body. Her transition from male to female is the epicenter of the story, and I wanted the cover to depict that. After trying out lots of different concepts, late one night I created a sketch of Grayson's boy’s t-shirt transitioning to a feminine shape. I love this cover.

The paperback repackage of the middle grade novel by bestselling author Eoin Colffer. Once my concept was approved, Owen Richardson was the obvious choice for the cover illustration, and I think he knocked it out of the ballpark. 

A middle grade adventure based on Peter Pan by best-selling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Cover illustration is by Greg Call under my art direction with my title branding. We chose an action-packed chase scene to make the cover jump off the shelves.