Books for Boys
Year: 2008
Size: A format paper back - 181mm x 111 mm
Illustrators: Neil Gower, Mark Thomas, Mick Brownfield, Despotica.
Lettering Artist: Stephen Raw
The covers, with their action-packed illustrations, hark back to
the golden age of adventure books. The controlled use of colour gives the
series a strong identity, while each cover individually contains elements -
particularly the typography - appropriate to the time it was first published. There
is an unashamed nostalgia about them, though they aren’t facsimilies of old
books - they are designed to have a freshness and appeal for younger readers
encountering these stories for the first time, as well as for their parents’
and grandparents’ generations.
