Book cover for the outsiders

It is to design a cover for the book the outsiders by s. We are looking for a striking cover design that is well executed, has an imaginative concept and clearly places the book for its market of both teenagers, to pick up and buy for themselves, and adults to buy for them. Seventeenth laurelleaf printing, mass market paperback, 128 pages. The originals celebrates brilliant books for young adults, from the outsiders to the wave. Rumble fish, tex, and of course, the outsiders, which was written when she was just 16 years old. The outsiders book cover book cover design by tree abraham for s. The outsiders is 50 years old, and it has a new cover to. As the book is a puffin book i thought it would be useful to look specifically at puffin book covers, as this will also give me an idea of the audience i am designing for. The novel tells the story of ponyboy curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. The outsiders book covers i wanted to look at existing book covers to gain inspiration for the book cover i am designing for the outsiders. Ponyboy and his two brothers darrel darry, who is 20, and sodapop, who is 16 have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident.

For this project, a classic novel was redesigned with a new. Ill admit that until i read the introduction of the outsiders that i didnt even realise that hinton was female. According to ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world. The outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14yearold boy. Highly commended, puffin childrens prize, penguin random house design award 2014. I assumed that a book about teenage boys and gang culture was written by a male writer. Since the outsiders follow a gang of roughandtumble teenagers, one cant help but wonder how theyd fair in todays world. Or, if you only remember the book from reading rainbow rowells fangirl, take this as an opportunity to enjoy it for the first time. I firstly looked at the previous winners of the penguin random house design awards.