Congratulations! This cover is a winner in the Book Goodies 2014 Book Cover Contest.
The Sprocketeers: Great Giza Gonzo
Cover Designer: Chris Friend, Zach Hall, Sundae
Comments about cover design
Chris Friend was the lead illustrator on The Sprocketeers project. We brought Zach Hall on to help with the over flow and he utilized Chris Friend’s illustrations to help create a cover for the first book in this series. I finalized it with some final touches with layout and design.
We love what Sundae and her amazing team did with this book cover. Chris is an amazing artist and bringing in Zach was a super creative addition to this cover design. We really love seeing a unique set of artwork in this genre! This cover really stands out from the soup and makes a clear statement of the fun and adventure that is within the pages of the book. Outstanding original design. Good job team Sprocketeers!!!
Love the cover! Such a colorful piece of work, the imagery just pops and invites the reader on this adventure.
Congrats on an amazingly creative and colorful cover! It makes me want to jump in there with them and join their adventure! It also takes me back to when I was a kid, mesmorized by the backdrop of Indiana Jones and Stargate 😉 This is truly fun, educational, and entertaining!
What an inviting cover! Promises adventure, fun, magic. Delights the eye, teases the mind, and comforts the parents who are looking for some history to spice up the storytelling. Wonderful.
I also wanted to mention how unique and original looking this cover looks compared to the others. I like how it stands out from the pack and has it’s own unique statement to make rather than blending in with the book cover soup. It very original. The layout is fantastic and very clean and very well done with the characters and fun of it. LOVE this COVER!!!
It’s a bright and exciting cover. Nothing is more recognizable than the Pyramids on the Giza Plateau, even from orbit! Clearly, you don’t need to reach orbit to have some fun with these two denizens of the mechanized era. A few nifty gizmos, a mechanical spider, and taste for adventure are all you really need. Many fun implications in the imagery on the cover, surely the book follows suit.
I’m IN! Interested that is. The cover totally captures my attention because there’s a great sense of adventure and fun here. I can see the characters in an animation format too!
The Sprocketeers cover brings adventure to a reality! The (thought to be) imaginative characters come to life through a single shot of their story behind the cover. Pick up the book, read and live the journey of Great Giza Gonzo! An absolute must for all ages!
I wish I had a full size poster of this cover it is so incredibly cool and engaging. The palette of colours and the layout are outstanding. This is so well designed and vibrant, it really stand out from the pack. Excellent work here, excellent.
The cover for The Sprocketeers is outstanding. The layout and characters are colorful, compelling, fun and very very cool. This cover makes me want to read the book and go on the adventure with these two. The Spider on the right is super interesting looking and I would want to see more. Such a super clean well designed book cover for kids….i love it!!
This is an incredible cover!!! The design of the characters is extremely fun and the layout id smart and clear. We really love the name of the book, The Sprocketeers and feel that the whole design of this cover really brings the fun and adventure to life. This is the best design cover in this category to us! We love all aspects of it. We also loved reading the book. The writers are so amazing and engaging. Wonder job!
The cover compels me to want to open the book!!
My daughter immediately identified with the characters when she first saw them and was very interested in reading the stories of their adventures. Such a clean and upbeat character design with a little anime-style eye treatment and a perfect blend of steam punk-like gadgets in an ancient land setting screams out ‘excitement and entertaining happenings’ are in store for the reader. This is one of the better covers I have seen for a youth oriented book!!
I love this cover! As a teacher, I can tell you, kids are going to be clamoring for this book. The bright colors, interesting background, and intriguing characters will lure them all in. I love the contrast of history in the background and technology in the foreground … very steam punk! Cooper and Alex are going to have an amazing adventure. I can’t wait to join them on their adventure, and take my class along with us.
Love the details… like a game of what else do you see here? The goggles (different for each eye, very efficient!) and the knee pads. Very cute! What a journey they’re going to have!
Love the cover and the book. It’s bright, intriguing and tells what you can expect inside: A great adventure.
Love the cover. My nephew was intrigued immediately.
colorful, detailed, jump in!
Love the cover. Was intriguing to my nephew right away. Detailed colourful and inviting. Jump in!
How imaginative and exciting is this book. The cover is so inviting. My grand girls were immediately drawn in to the two main characters and wanted to join their adventures. Totally unique and great fun. Just love, love , love the crazy sprocketeers!! This is just a good time and intriguing, beguiling and uplifting fun. And all of that is reflected in the cover. Go sprocketeers!!!
The Sprocketeers are landing in ancient magical GIZA! The book cover vibrantly reveals an enchantingly mesmerizing action packed and mystical adventure that kids and all readers will want to tour with! A fantastically creative and super POWered project and cover design that inspires and motivates readers to read on and on !! Get’s a “LIKE” “LOVE IT” and 5 GOLD STARS from me !!!
This is a great cover, it shows imagination and adventure for young readers. A super fun cover that draws the reader. To want to experience more, drawing them into the book. Great job to all involved.
Sprocketeers is a book that is judge by its cover… The image says adventure and that’s what kids love.
The attention to detail is really amazing. Great costumes and colors in contrast to the brown of the dessert. What fun!
What a great honor! A wonderful cover and a wonderful journey and story for young minds. Best of luck and congratulations.
I just love this cover looks very inviting. Awesome looking characters they have cool outfits. I’m loving the Egyptian background 🙂 What great talent !
Amazing cover. As per usual such wonderful ideas and colors. This will be a hit with kids of all ages.
This cover is amazing! I love all the colors and artistic work. My kids would love to read something like this. Can’t wait!
The cover is amazing! Growing up I would have loved to have seen more super rocking gadget girls like this!!!!
The Title typeset itself was compelling. The illustrations of Alyx & Cooper & Rivet made me want to dive right into the book & join the party!!! The cover promises (and DELIVERS) a good-time adventure for kids & adults alike! Love it!
Wow! I love this cover! The gadgets are so detailed! I’m excited to see what the evil spider on the right is up to! Just awesome!
Sitting here with my four year old and he loves it ! He wanted to know about the treasure box! Confident looking adventure kids great color and my son also loved their “gadgets”!’ Nice work!
This is an adorable book cover! I think it is adventurous, fun and inviting! Can’t wait to read it!
love the imagery – so fun and playful!! great for kids and bringing out the kids in adults!
It’s colorful and fun!! The sun is so radiating I can almost feel tanning my skin :))
The cover of this book immediately drew me in! It looks so fun! I wanted to know what these two characters were up to. The story was great and so much fun! I love the Sprocketeers!
This cover rocks! Great color, great characters with exciting and engaging energy. The title treatment is spot on as well. It creatively lets me know I’m entering a world of steam punk gadgets and mechanical motion. Fine work all around!
The cover lets you know you’re in for a fun, lively read. The dense and lively image lets you know that the story is also imaginative and challenging.
Great layout, nice blend of colors. Really inventive characters! Sucks me right in. I really like the glow of the sun and the motion implied by the main characters. Great work!
Great job…I want to go with them on their adventure! The logo is awesome. Looks like a fun read.
Great cover! One of a kind artwork that stands out from other kids books. I want to go on this adventure with them!
Love the colors and the enthusiasm of this cover!
Love the colors and the figures.
I’m loving this cover. It’s clean, smart, clear and colorful. It’s clear that they are about to go on or already on quite an adventure. I really like the Sprocketeers logo – it’s super engaging! It will really appeal to kids interested in the mechanical/robot spider!!
I love how simple and clean the cover is but also the implication that there’s so much more beyond the boundaries. The art is great, the lines are clean and the title is really cool too!
This cover rocks! And so do the pages that follow.
I love the clean lines, the contrasting colors of the light sand and the darker, industrial, steampunk clothing of the Sprocketeers. It really makes them pop. Rivet, the girl, is pointing out past the readers shoulder. The sense of action and movement makes me wonder what the characters are looking at just over my left shoulder. And what’s in the box on the left of Rivet? The boy, Cooper, doesn’t seem the least bit worried about the mechanical spider next to him. Yes, this cover suggests lots of color, action and adventure. It’s cleverly drawn (Pun intended) to pull the reader in.
This is one of the most fun and engaging covers I’ve seen in a long time. The Sprocketeers logo is wonderful and the characters jump out at you and make you want to pick up the book just to see what they will do.
I loved this adventure and the level of vocabulary which it utilized to make the children’s story come alive and exciting. Finally a children’s book that makes reading as colorful as it’s visual representations. Hope many more will follow!
Atmospheric, involving cover.This work positively exudes quality from every corner. Real new standard for every children book. Attention to details is great.
I know this book is aimed at a younger audience, but I’m 28 years old and had a blast reading it. I honestly wish there were more books like this when I was younger. As for the cover, it immediately brought a smile to my face when I first started reading as it set my expectations perfectly. It’s fun, witty, but a strong attention to detail. This is a great cover for a great book.
The design of this book is just wonderful for a children’s book. First off, one can not take their eyes off that title – so interesting! The colors jump off the paper and will hit any child walking down a crowded aisle at the store. I can see the kids now asking their parent’s to purchase this very colorful book. Even on the computer screen, the colors POP and any parent looking on Amazon for that special gift may have a youngin’ next to them pulling at their arm and pointing to the screen. The character’s also both feel magical and inviting the way they are drawn. So many questions this cover presents to a child’s normally inquisitive mind. What are these kids doing in the desert? Check out their cool outfits! It is a beautiful design from top to bottom and one that not only catches your eye but does put a smile on your face as well. I believe this design will stand out in a very busy book aisle for kids.
This cover is fantastic. It’s colorful and fun, with a mechanical spider. What more could anyone want? The kids are dapper in their adventure gear and the pyramids loom dramatically on the horizon! It’s a great cover that shouts “Read me!”
This cover rocks! It’s sophisticated yet fun and accessible. There also is a lot of nice attention to detail. A lot of good work. I’m sure The Sprocketeers are going to have a rad adventure!!! I want in!
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This looks like a fun cover that I is appealing. It looks like they are going to have quite an adventure. Very nice.
Thank you so much Maggie for your kind words! The Sprocketeers do have an incredible adventure in their first book!!! Wild and fun and we had a blast creating this book cover!