Awards Book Archive

Summer Time
  • Commended

Designed by
Antonia Pesenti
Category
Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
Year
2020
Publisher
NewSouth Publishing
Design Rationale

Summer Time was deliberately simple, open and languid, creating a sense of space and timelessness. Full bleed illustrations facing clean white pages give Summer Time a feeling of repetition and calmness, broken occasionally by immersive double page spreads. Each unit of time is handwritten, breaking up the 4 lines of rhyming verse, hinting at the structure underlying the book.

Bright and summery end papers wrap the book, with clock faces hinting at the passage of time (and bedtime!). NewSouth suggested using the gleeful swimming children (and dog) for the cover, capturing a quintessential moment of the Australian summer.

Details
Dimensions
215 x 260 mm
No. pages
44
Credits
Internal Design
Antonia Pesenti
Illustration
Antonia Pesenti
Typesetting
Jo Pajor-Markus
Printing
Everbest Printing Company
Author
Antonia Pesenti and Hilary Bell