Wonder Past Cover Designs - Penguin Books - Competition Brief

Wonder's original book cover by Tad Carpenter has become a beckon for the story and has carried it far, so it is interesting that Penguin have chosen this particular cover. It is probably because the story has a lot of scope that can be explored visually.

'From the get-go we knew we wanted to have Auggie on the cover of the jacket in some way, but the challenge was how much of Auggie do we show? We believe that the book itself should be what paints the picture of this captivating character and so we approached the Wonder jacket in more abstract terms. With Auggie’s appearance being such an integral part of the Wonder story, our choice was to abstract the character as to not influence the readers’ perception of who Auggie is, while also creating a metaphor for his facial abnormality.' - Tad Carpenter https://carpentercollective.com/2017/11/21/wonder/ I find this to be a really interesting concept and it works well for the story. Although the illustration is so simple it has legs and carries the story's concept well.

The simple use of colour also works in the books favour to be gender neutral and soothing, as the book itself emits a strong feeling of kindness and acceptance.

Something I want to consider for my own interpretation of the cover is that the book is narrated by several different characters and it deals with their personal problems too, not just August's. So I would liked to create a cover that also acknowledges the side characters too.