Penguin Book Cover: Carrie's War

  • Tsai Chia Kuo
2015 Penguin design awards, children's book: Carries war book cover redesign.
Carrie's journey begins with the railways and the grove that covered with yew trees leading her to Druid's Bottom, where she once had owned the happiness of her childhood, except she did something in the end that she regret with grief for her life. She locked up the memories as she had never left the place. Using colors to make the flow of story, front cover filled with brighter colors represent the adventurous journey she took, through the spine to the back cover, reveal the twists with the broken railways leading to the pond, to give a hint of the troublesome without giving away the story.