Bookmaking With Kids

I think this nifty cover+bookmark idea deserves to be adapted in the classroom. It would make a great book-review project! Kids could create a dust jacket to wrap around the book they’ve read, write promotional text on the inside flaps and back cover, and create a handmade bookmark as the finishing touch.

I’d suggest some brainstorming about graphics before kids choose a book. The story should lend itself to a bookmark design. That is, it needs some striking characteristic—like the white rabbit’s ears, Robin’s arrow or Sherlock’s pipe—that’s both emblematic of the story and easy for kids to draw and cut out as a bookmark.

You can see more photos of designer Igor Udushlivy’s Jacket+Bookmark concepts here. And thanks to Swiss Miss, where I spotted a post about this concept for book promotion.