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Cover Image for Children’s Books
[French: Couverture]
Follow the same directions as for other covers. See Cover Images for more information.
Some covers will require more description than others. Remember to stay as concise as possible. Generally, children’s books require more description as they are image-led stories.
The context of a children's book is to market the book to children, so use language that is at the reading level of the book. When describing objects, buildings, shapes, etc. stick to the facts and describe what they look like.
Sometimes, you will have a book where the Back Cover image also requires description. For more information please see Back Cover.
Example
In this example we started with a general description of the cover, and then went into more detail including the stand out elements that are meant to grab the reader's attention. We also counted the number of beavers to include in our description. This can help keep your description direct and concise!
Colour, text, and even illustration style are important to include, but try to remain objective and stick to the facts when describing. Let the readers come to their own conclusions about any emotional impact the cover may have.
Like any other type of image description, this just takes practice!
[Alt-text]: A full color digital illustration of four beavers as they greet each other on a river. In the background, the river bank is lined with mud and stone with bright thick green grass above. Each beaver has smooth brown fur with red lines decorating their arms and bodies. They also have long, thick flat tails, round heads with no ears, and small snouts with two big white teeth. To the left, a mommy beaver waves towards another beaver with a smile. The mommy wears green beaded earrings and carries a baby on her back. The baby wears pink beaded earrings. To the right, the other beaver waves back with a big smile. They wear a black headband with a round white medallion at the front. Just behind them another beaver peaks its head up from the water. It wears a blue headband.
