Prairie Tales. Book design, art direction, layout, material specification and print supervision for an series of five illustrated books for the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. Case bound, full color, 6.75 x by 8.5 inches. The form of these illustrated volumes was designed to be an appropriate scale for a young reader.

Interior spread from The Discontented Gopher The cloth and foil colors for the series were chosen so each individual title compliments the colorful variety of the series. Other titles in the series Dance in a Buffalo Skull, The Prairie-Dog Prince, Raccoon and the Bee Tree, The Enchanted Buffalo.

 

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