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Your cover has under two seconds to win a buyer scrolling Amazon on a phone. We design thumbnail-first children's book covers — one memorable character, full-bleed art, and title type that stays readable at any size. Front, spine and back delivered print-ready at 300 DPI CMYK for KDP and IngramSpark.
Need more than a cover? Interior illustration · KDP formatting · Bulk printing
4 genres · 23+ real covers
Amazon's picture-book buyers decide in under two seconds, usually on a phone. After 1000+ covers, these four factors separate a cover that sells from one that gets scrolled past.
Most sales start as a ~160px thumbnail in search. If the character and title don't read at that size, the cover fails before anyone sees it full-size.
A single character with a clear emotional expression drives purchase connection far more than a busy scene with many small elements.
White margins and borders signal "amateur" in the picture-book category. Edge-to-edge art is the standard buyers now expect.
Rounded, warm title type big enough to read across a room — and legible on both light and dark Amazon backgrounds.
One design, delivered in every file you need to publish — eBook, paperback and hardcover, all matching.
High-resolution front-facing JPEG sized for Kindle and the Amazon listing thumbnail.
Print-ready front, spine and back as one PDF, with exact spine width from your page count.
Separate wrap and spine calculation for case-laminate or dust-jacket hardcover binding.
Correct bleed, barcode placement and CMYK profile so it passes KDP and IngramSpark first time.
Send your title, character, target age and covers you love. Free brief.
We present concepts, each tested at thumbnail size. You pick a direction.
Unlimited revisions on your chosen concept — layout, colour, typography.
Wraparound PDF, eBook JPEG and source files for KDP and IngramSpark.
It's tempting to judge a cover on a big screen where every detail sings. But that's not where the purchase happens. A parent searching "bedtime story" on Amazon sees a grid of covers roughly 160 pixels wide on their phone. Your cover competes there against Penguin, HarperCollins and Scholastic — whose covers are engineered to win at exactly that scale. If your title turns to mush and your character becomes a blob at thumbnail size, the buyer scrolls past without ever tapping through. That's why every cover we design is checked at thumbnail scale before anything else.
A common instinct is to pack the cover with story — the setting, several characters, small background details. At thumbnail size that richness collapses into visual noise. Covers that convert in the children's category almost always lead with a single character showing a clear, readable emotion: joyful, curious, mischievous, brave. That one face does the emotional work of connecting with a browsing parent. We build the composition around that focal character and let the background support rather than compete.
Beautiful art with weak lettering is a cover that underperforms. Children's book titles need warm, rounded, friendly type that feels age-appropriate and stays legible when small. It also has to hold up on both Amazon's white background and dark-mode displays, which is why we test title contrast both ways. Getting the balance right between artwork and title — so neither fights the other — is where experience matters most.
An eBook cover is one flat image. A print cover is a single wraparound file combining back, spine and front, and it must wrap around real pages with millimetre precision. Spine width depends on your exact page count and paper type; get it wrong and the title creeps onto the front or back. Add correct bleed so no white edge appears after trimming, place the barcode area cleanly, and export in the right CMYK profile. We calculate all of this so your file uploads without rejection.
Every package is thumbnail-tested with unlimited revisions on your chosen concept. A cover is included free in most full illustration packages.
Front cover for Kindle & listing
Paperback cover for KDP + IngramSpark
Every edition, one design
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Thumbnail-tested, full-bleed, print-ready for KDP and IngramSpark. Free quote in 24 hours, with unlimited revisions until it's right.