Karin Campagna from Frome’s wonderful Hunting Raven Bookshop has given the following suggestions to inspire your book cover ideas for our Break 3 Young Illustrators competition.

Search out some of these great books below in your library or bookshop to start you imagining, or let us know your own book suggestions. Featured above is Shaun Tan’s wonderful ‘The Lost Thing’.

Design a cover for your favourite book about a JOURNEY or a QUEST, and don’t forget to drop your entries off by Monday 3rd June in the competition boxes at Hunting Raven Bookshop, Rook Lane Arts and Frome Library.

The deadline is Monday 3rd of June, but you can start posting your entries as soon as you like.

 Under 7 age group

Who Am I? by Gervase Phinn & Illustrated by Tony Ross
The Way Back Home Written & Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
The Diabolical Mr Tiddles Written & Illustrated by Tom McLaughlin
The Lost Thing Written & Illustrated by Shaun Tan (shown above)

7-10 age group
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
The Sleeping Army by Francesca Simon
Tree Soup by Joel Stewart

11-13 age group
Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond
The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
Frog by Joffre White

14-18 age group
The Feathered Man by Jeremy de Quidt
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Lord of the Flies by William Golding