These are some of the small book dummies I made to send to my dearest editor at Chronicle Books, Ariel Richardson and to the books' s art director, the wonderful designer Amelia Mack. We were trying to figure out if the layouts would work out fine for the reader to interact.
In this first dummy, I was testing the option of asking the reader to TURN the book to the left so I could "fill" the whole page with water. In the story, Bunny jumps from the boat to go snorkeling underwater. We ended up deciding that it might be confusing for the reader and decided instead to move the horizon line to the top of the page.
So in this second dummy, I tested the way it would look if I moved the water line to the top of the page. This is the option we went for at the end.
This scene didn't end up being part of the book. Bunny would tap on the clouds to make rain, son the page would fill up with water.
Bunny Overboard is the third of an interactive books series I published by Chronicle Books. The reader takes part in the development of the story by shaking the book to make waves, blowing to bring the wind for the sails and touching creatures under the ocean.
I created several storyboards and thumbnails for this book, so the consequences of the interaction with the reader would be clear and the story would develop smoothly. You can see the final art from the blowfish scene bellow.
In these two spreads from the book, the blowfish inflates after the reader pats it in the previous page when asked by the narrator.
This sequence of Bunny climbing to the boat didn't end up being in the book. Editing is more an act of trimming than adding.
The jump scene in the storyboard and the the final images for the book.
Bunny Overboard has been translated into French: Bayard Editions Simplified Chinese: Trustbridge German: Gerstenberg Verlag
