2) Dana Adam Shapiro: Dana Adam Shapiro was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for his first film, MURDERBALL, a documentary about the United States Paralympic Quad Rugby Team. His latest film, MONOGAMY, starring Chris Messina and Rashida Jones, is nominated for a 2011 Independent Spirit Award and will be released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories. His 2007 animated short about unrequited love and recycling, MY BIODEGRADABLE HEART, was an official selection at Sundance and many other fests around the world. His debut novel, THE EVERY BOY (published by Houghton Mifflin), was a NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE and a 2005 BOOK SENSE NOTABLE BOOK. Other projects include HOLLER, a film about segregated proms in the South, which he wrote and will be produced by Screen Gems in 2011, and AMERICAN FAMILY, a documentary-in-progress about interracial couples. Shapiro is a former senior editor at SPIN, a founding editor and senior writer of ICON magazine, and he is a contributor to THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE and other publications. He was the 2007 Artist-in-Residence at Bucknell University and currently lives in Venice, California.3) Bare Henry
4) Henry Every, the titular boy in Shapiro's inventive but too precious debut novel, drowns under mysterious circumstances at the tender age of 15, leaving behind a mother who's a little obsessed with ant farms, a father devoted to his jellyfish and boxing, and five years' worth of diary entries written on 2,600 pages of loose-leaf graph paper. This "ledger... is... a catalog of life's wee tics and pangs... threadbare confessionals, overheard dialogue transcriptions, [and] stabs at investigative journalism." For his estranged parents, Hannah and Harlan, it's a window on the wacky inner life of a deeply (but quite happily) odd teenager. Henry's antics and observations are endearingly offbeat for the most part, but become cloying at times: in answer to the essay question "Who are you?" he "found himself starting at the Precambrian era and sifting through four and a half billion years worth of being." Though Shapiro serves up some wise, lovely characterizations (Henry's grandma Lulu, for example), the mostly light-and-sweet narrative stalls in moments of self-conscious precocity, when the author's fascination with Henry resembles a narcissistic adolescent crush.5) dark, comical, obscure, inventive, coming-of-age, observant, odd, tragic, youth, happy, encouraging, sweet
6) Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
7) Henry tries to find himself amidst his odd and estranged parents.
8) There is not a clear antagonist, though it could be considered "the world" that does not include Henry.
9) Henry Every: "Telling the truth is so much easier. Every lie requires a lifetime of maintenance."
10) I chose this book because I feel as though the covers that had already been designed did not fully express the depth and challenges of the Henry Every.
*1) Candy
2) Kevin Brooks: It was the publication of Martyn Pig that changed everything. After being turned down by a number of publishers, Kevin Brooks sent his manuscript to The Chicken House, who jumped on the chance to publish it. They released Martyn Pig in the spring of 2002. In the U.K, the book went on to be short-listed for the Carnegie Medal and win a Branford Boase Award for a first best novel. And in the United States, it was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start and an ALA Book of the Year, among its many accolades.
3) Lucas, Being, iBoy, Kissing the Rain, Martyn Pig
4) The story opens when Joe- from a single parent family, a music lover and with a knack for curiosity - meets 16-year-old Candy on the streets of London. He soon learns that Candy is not only a runaway from her home town, but also a teenage prostitute and heroin addict. He immediately becomes infatuated with her.
5) naive, complex, fast, teenage, lovey, fantastical, curious, haphazard, accidental, heartbreaking, critical, urban
6) Sometimes doing everything for love can backfire.
7) Joe does everything to get a solid hold on Candy's heart after meeting her by accident.
8) Candy drags Joe into complex and dangerous situations, by accident or on purpose.
9) Joe: "I was always doing that back then - making up songs, playing tunes in my head, dreaming the music..."
10) I chose to redesign this book's cover because I feel as though the image and typography do not work well together, nor does it fully describe the story.
2) Kevin Brooks: It was the publication of Martyn Pig that changed everything. After being turned down by a number of publishers, Kevin Brooks sent his manuscript to The Chicken House, who jumped on the chance to publish it. They released Martyn Pig in the spring of 2002. In the U.K, the book went on to be short-listed for the Carnegie Medal and win a Branford Boase Award for a first best novel. And in the United States, it was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start and an ALA Book of the Year, among its many accolades.
3) Lucas, Being, iBoy, Kissing the Rain, Martyn Pig
4) The story opens when Joe- from a single parent family, a music lover and with a knack for curiosity - meets 16-year-old Candy on the streets of London. He soon learns that Candy is not only a runaway from her home town, but also a teenage prostitute and heroin addict. He immediately becomes infatuated with her.
5) naive, complex, fast, teenage, lovey, fantastical, curious, haphazard, accidental, heartbreaking, critical, urban
6) Sometimes doing everything for love can backfire.
7) Joe does everything to get a solid hold on Candy's heart after meeting her by accident.
8) Candy drags Joe into complex and dangerous situations, by accident or on purpose.
9) Joe: "I was always doing that back then - making up songs, playing tunes in my head, dreaming the music..."
10) I chose to redesign this book's cover because I feel as though the image and typography do not work well together, nor does it fully describe the story.
1) The Lovely Bones
2) Alice Sebold: Alice Sebold was born September 6, 1963, in Madison, Wisconsin, to an alcoholic, demented mother and a Spanish professor. While attending Syracuse University, she was brutally raped. She eventually took her rapist to court where he was convicted on six counts. She published her first book, Lucky as a “misery memoir,” and then The Lovely Bones, an award winning fiction novel that led to her success. She lives today in San Francisco, California, with her husband Glen David Gold. The Lovely Bones has been adapted to film and is scheduled for a 2009 theatrical release. Her most recent novel is Almost Noon.
3) Lucky, The Almost Moon
4) On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
5) depressing, omniscient, uplifting, mysterious, absence, heavenly, bright, dreamy, puzzling, life-like, interesting, whimsical
6) Justice is served when the innocent are mistreated.
7) Susie helps the people she loves find her killer as she watches over them in heaven.
8) Mr. Harvey tries to escape his crime and avoid being arrested for the murder of Susie Salmon.
9) Susie: "In newspaper photos of missing girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair."
10) I chose to re-design this book because all of the covers are the same, and though they are not badly designed, I think I could come up with a different solution.
2) Alice Sebold: Alice Sebold was born September 6, 1963, in Madison, Wisconsin, to an alcoholic, demented mother and a Spanish professor. While attending Syracuse University, she was brutally raped. She eventually took her rapist to court where he was convicted on six counts. She published her first book, Lucky as a “misery memoir,” and then The Lovely Bones, an award winning fiction novel that led to her success. She lives today in San Francisco, California, with her husband Glen David Gold. The Lovely Bones has been adapted to film and is scheduled for a 2009 theatrical release. Her most recent novel is Almost Noon.
3) Lucky, The Almost Moon
4) On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
5) depressing, omniscient, uplifting, mysterious, absence, heavenly, bright, dreamy, puzzling, life-like, interesting, whimsical
6) Justice is served when the innocent are mistreated.
7) Susie helps the people she loves find her killer as she watches over them in heaven.
8) Mr. Harvey tries to escape his crime and avoid being arrested for the murder of Susie Salmon.
9) Susie: "In newspaper photos of missing girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair."
10) I chose to re-design this book because all of the covers are the same, and though they are not badly designed, I think I could come up with a different solution.
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