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Posted On: September 1st 2026, 12:12 am
Young Adult Book Cover Redesigns 1: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 🍃🐦⬛
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This was the first cover I started my redesign series with. I remember reading this book as a child and vividly remember the cover art; a girl standing by a floral scene, a door resembling a secretive entrance. As I’ve grown up, I’ve realized how common of an approach that image was for the different versions of the cover for this book.
With this redesign, I really wanted to avoid using that same imagery (not because it’s not successful) because I wanted to challenge myself to pull another visual from the story to create an iconic cover with.
I remember reading and thinking how important the robin was to the story. I decided to go with that and create a composition around the robin while still keeping floral elements and pieces of the door (in the background) to keep the cover still recognizable.
The type is also meant to be interacting with the illustration and acting as a whole composition together. The vines coming from the background and wrapping around some of the letters is aiming for that. I also went for a victorian and delicate but still bold looking type; trying to capture the time period and the context of the story while still keeping it whimsical and fun.
More of my designs available at oykuderinersoy.cargo.site
#yabookcover #youngadultbookcover #bookcoverart #covetart #bookcoverdesign
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This was the first cover I started my redesign series with. I remember reading this book as a child and vividly remember the cover art; a girl standing by a floral scene, a door resembling a secretive entrance. As I’ve grown up, I’ve realized how common of an approach that image was for the different versions of the cover for this book.
With this redesign, I really wanted to avoid using that same imagery (not because it’s not successful) because I wanted to challenge myself to pull another visual from the story to create an iconic cover with.
I remember reading and thinking how important the robin was to the story. I decided to go with that and create a composition around the robin while still keeping floral elements and pieces of the door (in the background) to keep the cover still recognizable.
The type is also meant to be interacting with the illustration and acting as a whole composition together. The vines coming from the background and wrapping around some of the letters is aiming for that. I also went for a victorian and delicate but still bold looking type; trying to capture the time period and the context of the story while still keeping it whimsical and fun.
More of my designs available at oykuderinersoy.cargo.site
#yabookcover #youngadultbookcover #bookcoverart #covetart #bookcoverdesign
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