Book Of Flight

I worked together with graphic designer Meagan Bennett at Phaidon to put together this illustrated kids book, conceived & written by children’s author Gabrielle Balkan.

The book looks at ten animals, each with a particularly interesting method of flying. Interestingly, only four out of the ten animals are birds.

In a ‘guess which animal’ format, the first spread for each animal is shown in a blueprint style, to detail the special attributes of how they fly. On the reveal spread, the animal was illustrated (in the same pose) in full colour in it’s environment.


Written by: Gabrielle Balkan
Hardback: 48 pages
Age Range: 5-8 years
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date: 24 May 2019
Size: 254 x 317 x 10 mm

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