It shows my thinking behind the negative space between the tree trunk, and how I worked and developed this. It includes a few disposable ideas which didn’t make the cut for the final.

I have also included some of my sketchbook pages from my thought process, as I feel this is a crucial part of any book cover illustrator. I didn’t want to be too literal with my illustration so I produced a lot of brainstorms and thumbnails (shown below). It’s a type of story that a book cover illustrator loves! Boo is symbolised by the oak tree within the middle of the cover, as Boo leaves presents for Scout and Jem when they walk home for school, he is their protector, without them even knowing. He ultimately saves Scout and Jem at the end of the book, which also happens beneath a tree.

He stays inside his house as he doesn’t want to see the corruption in the world, and looks over Atticus’s children, Scout and Jem. In the middle of all of this commotion is the character, Boo Radley. After reading over parts again I decided to look at how the book deals with good vs evil, black vs white, and Atticus vs the Ewell family. The story is engaging and describes it’s characters excellent, so I decided to make a cover for it. I love the way the book is written and is one of my favourite books to read, and a great films also! Being a book cover illustrator, I love producing illustrations for this sort of project, it’s very rewarding and lets me be creative. I just produced this book cover of the famous novel by Harper Lee, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’. My week has been packed full of new commissions, meeting with clients, and book cover projects (because every illustrator is a book cover illustrator at heart).

I hadn't realized it had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it.Hello hello! I hope you’re having a great week so far. I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort. 3, 2015, HarperCollins announced it was publishing a second book by Lee titled 'Go Set a Watchman.' Lee explained the 'found' book in a statement: 'In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called Go Set a Watchman. It is narrated by Scout, who's a child during the action but recalls the events as a mature woman. HarperCollins Show More Show Less 2 of27 Published in 1960, Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' puts race on trial in a tiny Alabama town during the 1930s. 'Go Set A Watchmen' takes place 20 years later, and features some of the same characters from the American classic. The book jacket for the sequel of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' references the cover of the original novel.

Book cover of to kill a mockingbird