Magnolia Studio | Portfolio Campfire Stories With Grandma Dani

In 2023 I worked with an author/illustrator to create a kid's book — Meet the Greens! — so I was eager to work on another. My good friend, Season Polsin was approached with an idea a dear friend of hers came up with — a story/activity book about camping with kids told by the grown-up, Grandma Dani. The story, illustrated by Season, mimics a little kid's drawing style. I assisted her by retouching the images using Photoshop to fit the author, Kris Drath's, requirements.

The process for this book was very different than most of my other projects. Instead of images complimenting the text, the text had to describe the image in very few words, almost like captions. There were full-color story pages, and black and white pages that could be colored as an activity. Also the chapters are delineated with color-coded borders and a large font for kid readability. [ … Read More ]

Kris used IngramSpark's online self-publishing process to produce a beautiful hardcover 11"x8.5" book. She preferred a "hybrid" type of publishing (direct and on-demand), so she chose IngramSpark.com to distribute directly to book stores and book buyers, and purchased printed books to sell directly and to bookstores during book signings around the country. [ Read Less ]