Children’s Picture Book Design
Your illustrations and manuscript are finished. Now you need help pulling everything together.
You’re publishing a children’s book. Awesome! How can we help?
Children’s Chapter Books
You’re publishing a children’s chapter book.
Page Planning (Storyboarding)
You need help planning the book pages before your illustrator starts working.
Talent Search
You need help finding an editor and/or illustrator.
Children’s Picture Book Design
Your illustrations and manuscript are finished. Woohoo! Now you need help pulling it all together and prepping your files for publishing.
We offer a few different solutions . . .
All solutions are based on books up to 40 pages and up to 2K words (including front and back matter).
Basic
Basic Children’s Book Design Package
- $375
- You have a completed cover illustration with title typography. We will make sure it fits the printing templates.
We will design all interior pages including front matter (like copyright and dedication) and back matter (like About the Author and resources or activities). - Cover: Layout Only
- Interior Design & Layout: 2 sample designs, 2 rounds of revisions to the full book
- Paperback (Hardcover add $70)
- Fixed-layout e-book for Kindle
- Fixed-layout e-book for iBooks (add $50)
- Barcode Creation
- Illustration print-readiness check (we will convert to CMYK if needed)
- Copyediting and Proofreading
- Uploading files to your printer of choice
- Optimizing Your Amazon Description
- Sell Sheet PDF
- Social Media Images 5-pack
Mighty
Standard Children’s Book Design Package
- $575
- You have a completed cover illustration. We will design title typography and create a cohesive and eye-catching final cover design. We will make sure it fits the printing templates.
We will design all interior pages including front matter (like copyright and dedication) and back matter (like About the Author and resources or activities). - Cover Design: 2 sample designs, 2 rounds of revisions to front and back
- Interior Design & Layout: 2 sample designs, 2 rounds of revisions to the full book
- Paperback and/or Hardcover
- Fixed-layout e-book for Kindle
- Fixed-layout e-book for iBooks (add $50)
- Barcode Creation
- Illustration print-readiness check (we will convert to CMYK if needed)
- Copyediting and Proofreading
- Uploading files to your printer of choice
- Optimizing Your Amazon Description
- Sell Sheet PDF
- Social Media Images 5-pack
Stellar
Premium Children’s Book Design Package
- $995
- You have a completed cover illustration. We will design title typography and create a cohesive and eye-catching final cover design. We will make sure it fits the printing templates.
We will design all interior pages including front matter (like copyright and dedication) and back matter (like About the Author and resources or activities).
We will also upload your files to your printer and/or distributor, helping to fill in the necessary publishing information. - Cover Design: 3 sample designs, 3 rounds of revisions to front and back
- Interior Design & Layout: 3 sample designs, 3 rounds of revisions to the full book
- Paperback and/or Hardcover
- Fixed-layout e-book for Kindle
- Fixed-layout e-book for iBooks
- Barcode Creation
- Illustration print-readiness check (we will convert to CMYK if needed). Illustration modification and cleanup services are also available.
- Copyediting and Proofreading
- Uploading files to your printer of choice. (Publishing with KDP or IngramSpark? We will help you fill in all necessary information.)
- Optimizing Your Amazon Description
- Sell Sheet PDF
- Social Media Images 5-pack
Ready to Start Your Children’s Picture Book Project?
Please fill out our order form. (It takes under 5 minutes!)
Children’s Chapter Books
Children’s chapter books are a similar process to our interior book design work for fiction and nonfiction. Please see our interior book design page for process and pricing.
Pictured: The Magic of Me by Becky Cummings (pages out of order)
Page Planning (Storyboarding)
Save time and money by planning your book before your illustrator starts working.
Our planning service starts with a 1-hour phone or Zoom call to go over your book publishing strategy. We’ll go over questions like:
- Where do you plan to print and distribute? We’ll suggest different options.
- Printing details: Are you creating a paperback, hardcover case, or hardcover with a dust jacket? We’ll help you navigate the options and help you choose a printer that will offer what you need.
- Page details: Based on where you plan to print, your final book design may need to follow specific requirements. Page size and page count are some details that you’ll need to know way in advance of illustrating. Not all printers offer all sizes, and some may have page count requirements.
- Illustration details: We’ll share the exact page sizes and technical specs for your illustrator to follow. Details like page bleed, margins, and gutter margins are important for your illustrator to know to avoid delays in your project.
- Story review: We’ll go over your story together and suggest next steps. We might suggest working with an editor or a proofreader depending on the state of your text.
After our call, we will create a page storyboard for you. Whether you’ve already worked with an editor or you have a rough manuscript, we’ll help you plan the pages to effectively arrange your text. Authors often forget to include elements like the Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication, About the Author and Illustrator, and possibly activity pages. If your printer requires a specific page count, it is important to plan ALL of these sections in advance. We will send you a PowerPoint or Word template that you can further revise with your editor and share with your illustrator for page planning purposes.
After your illustrations are complete, we would love to work with you on the final book design. But we also don’t mind if you choose to work with another designer. The page planning storyboard is all yours to keep.
Strategy call and storyboarding cost: $295
To order this service, please email info (at) dtperfect (dot) com. We’ll email you back to schedule a call.
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