This week's assignment was really challenging and fun. We were suppose to illustrate, from our own perspective a Russian folktale called 'The Language of the Birds'. I remember the first time I tried to illustrate a children's book. I think I was in 2nd grade or so and it was a story of a rat. I forget the story, but I vividly remember my teacher giving me this huge gold star for the book and me having tons of fun illustrating with colored chalk. I bet the book's in my mother's garage somewhere :)

For this book cover assignment, I wanted the illustration to have a sense of wonder and magical moment. This was the first time I played with hand lettering which is fascinating to me..there's something personal and human about it. What do you think?