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Children's book design

Save Up, Fly High!: Picture Book Layout, Typography and KDP Print

Picture-book layout, typography and KDP print preparation for Save Up, Fly High! Donovan's Dream Adventure by Sabrina Lamb, illustrated by Rajhean Rodriques: a story about a boy saving up for his first flying lesson, with a “Dream Talk” question on every page.

Scope
Interior layout, typography and KDP print preparation
A smiling boy on a sofa reading the paperback of Save Up, Fly High! Donovan's Dream Adventure, written by Sabrina Lamb and illustrated by Rajhean Rodriques: the front cover shows a boy holding a pink piggy bank and looking up at a plane in a blue sky, and the back cover shows the book description and author biographies.

Our approach

Story pages. Each spread pairs a full-page illustration with a text page. The story is set in a friendly, rounded sans serif in dark navy, centred and broken into short lines for reading aloud, with key words picked out in capitals (“BIG”, “ENORMOUS”, “TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS?!”). Smaller moments, like Donovan's savings notebook (“Monday: $5, Tuesday: $7…”), are set as their own short lists.

Dream Talk. At the foot of every text page, a “Dream Talk” box in red sums up the moment and asks the reader a question (“Q: What would YOU want to learn to do? What would you save for?”), so parents and teachers can stop and talk about money, goals and choices. Page numbers sit in small navy circles.

Cover and front matter. The cover sets the title, “SAVE UP, FLY HIGH!”, in chunky white capitals with a purple outline over the sky illustration, with the subtitle, author and illustrator credits below. The back cover carries the book description, a list of conversation topics, an age range, author and illustrator biographies and prices. The front matter includes a title page and a copyright and dedication spread with a small piggy-bank drawing.

KDP print. The two videos show the finished book: a walkthrough of the page layouts spread by spread, and the full cover wrap and every interior spread checked in the KDP Print Previewer.

  • Three open spreads of Save Up, Fly High!: page 3, “In a busy city where buildings reached so high they nearly touched the clouds, there lived a boy named Donovan”, beside a colourful city street; page 5, Donovan asking how much flying lessons cost, beside him dreaming of a plane with his piggy bank; and page 6, his savings notebook, beside him writing in bed under a “My Dream: Fly!” poster, each with a red Dream Talk question.
  • An open spread of Save Up, Fly High!: on the left, Donovan with his piggy bank looking up at a plane over a city by a river; on the right, Donovan lying on his bed with his chin in his hands beside a “Dream, Fly, Achieve” poster, with the story text set in navy across both pages.

Video

  • Save Up, Fly High!: interior layout walkthrough

  • Save Up, Fly High!: KDP Print Previewer check

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