Penguin Brief - Redesigned Adrian Mole Book Covers

After taking advice from both peers and Illustrators, I tried to incorporate their elements to my children book cover. Below are the redesign book covers that I have created. 

 

The above book cover is a redesign version of the previous white book cover. I kept the school equipment border, but took away some elements. This includes the Backpack, and sharpener. These were replaced with different coloured stars instead, making book appearance more eye catching. Then I also made some adjustments with the title of the cover book, such as making the typeface gold and having a shadow behind it. This creates a 3D effect, this will make the book more eye catching for children to pick up. I also added some emoji stickers onto the book as the book is a humorous/comedic story. Then for the back of the book, I put the blurb in a book vector (as it would indicates Adrain Mole's diary). Then the pen line is joined to the pen in the spine area, which presents the spine information. 

Feedback on a teenager aged 14
As this sort of genre in this type of book is targeted for young children aged between 11 -15 years old. I asked my brother who is roughly around that age group if he would pick up this book if he saw it. His advice was that it is very eye catching, however, it the appearance of the book looks more catered to 12 year old girls than both genders. Especially the colour of the watercolours are too rainbow coloured and has a feminine appearance. But he does like the style of font used, as it is all messy and un-tidy. The stars also take the eye away from the title and the other elements on the page. He likes how there is a illustration of the boy Adrian Mole, so children in that age group can relate. 

Aftermath of the feedback from my brother. Below are some images of experimenting with changing the background of the book cover. I tried to change the background from the colourful splashes to lined paper, thus indicating education. I have one with the border and the other without. The one with, has a very aesthetic appearance whilst the one without looks too plain. But the title does stand out and reaches more to the eye. 

 

The image below is a picture of the back of the other design for the back blurb for the white book cover. Instead of the book/diary vector, I have replaced this with a chalkboard, again referring back to the school education background. There are also emoji stickers to help bring out the childlike appearance to the back cover. For the spine is is kept the same as a lot of peers and the illustrator I showed it to said they liked it. 

For the red cover design, again I have slightly changed some objects and elements due to the unfavourable feedback. I have made the typeface title more bigger and eye catching, as it was not as noticeable in the previous design. Next the photo film - I replaced the dark silhouettes to illustration of the young boy pulling various facial expression (indicating comedy). I have rearranged the British elements on the page, to a more cluttered and scatter appearance - refers to the untidiness of the boy character. Some random coins and a few crayons in various colours to make the cover more appealing to the child eyes.