Make your book stand out with a stunning, professionally designed cover. At The Rainbow Stories, we offer top-quality custom book cover design services to match your story, genre, and audience. Whether you’re self-publishing or going through a publisher, we help you create a cover that sells. A cover usually comes after the interior work, and character design first, then the storyboard, then this.
We illustrate and lay out children’s book covers: front, spine and back, drawn around your title and sized to your exact page count. Covers are delivered print-ready at 300 dpi in CMYK with the correct bleed and trim for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark or Barnes & Noble. Every cover is checked at thumbnail size before delivery, because that is how most readers will see it first.
| Front cover | Illustrated around the title and composed to still read at thumbnail size |
|---|---|
| Spine | Sized to your exact page count and paper stock |
| Back cover | Blurb area, barcode space, and an author photo if you want one |
| Files | Print-ready PDF, 300 dpi, CMYK, with bleed and trim marks |
| Set up for | Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Barnes & Noble, or EPUB |
| Rounds included | Three to four, at the sketch stage |
| If a printer rejects a file | We fix it at no charge |
| Drawn by | Amna Zaki, Noor or Ayesha, by hand and never generated |
| Copyright | Transfers to you in full on final payment |
You can watch a cover go from sketch to printed book in the Great Barrier Reef case study.
Looking for book cover design services that perfectly capture the essence of your story? Our team of expert designers creates custom book covers that are not only visually stunning but also crafted to engage your target audience. Each cover is designed to reflect the theme, characters, and mood of your story, ensuring your book stands out in the market.
Whether you’re an author or a self-publisher, whether it’s a children’s storybook, fantasy adventure, or educational book, our professional book cover design services provide the perfect balance of creativity and marketability. We focus on both print and digital-ready covers, helping your book make a lasting impression on readers.
Your book is unique; it deserves a cover that reflects its story. Our custom book cover design service gives you:
We never use templates or shortcuts. Every cover is handcrafted with care, creativity, and a deep understanding of your audience.
A cover is one stage of a longer job, set out in how the rest of a picture book gets illustrated covers what happens either side of it.
As a leading book cover design company, we’ve helped hundreds of authors create powerful first impressions. Our expert design team combines design skills, marketing knowledge, and publishing standards to make sure your book gets noticed.
If you’re also looking to hire a book illustrator, our team provides integrated solutions that combine beautiful covers with engaging visual storytelling ideal for picture books, early readers, and custom stories.
We don’t just design, we create covers that connect with readers. Our custom book covers are made with:
Whether you want something modern, elegant, bold, or artistic we design it for you.
Children’s books need bright, fun, and engaging covers that instantly capture a child’s imagination, invite curiosity, and make them excited to open the book and dive into the story. Our children’s book cover design service includes:
We’re proud to deliver some of the best children’s book illustrations that help your cover jump off the shelf and into the hands of young readers.
Looking for a fun, creative, and artistic touch for your children’s book? Our illustration book cover design services are perfect for young readers! We create covers that bring your characters and stories to life with:
Each cover is custom-made to match your story and delight both kids and parents. Whether it’s a bedtime story, a fairy tale, or an adventure book we design covers that kids will love to pick up!
Our talented artists also specialize in children’s book illustrations, adding visual charm and narrative warmth that capture young imaginations. If you’re an author or publisher searching for children’s book illustrators for hire, we’re here to support you with custom artwork tailored to your story.
At The Rainbow Stories, we believe every book deserves a beautiful, custom cover that brings its story to life. Whether you’re a debut author or a seasoned publisher, we’re here to help you shine.
Contact us today to get started with our professional book cover design, or to hire a book illustrator who can bring your vision to life with rich visuals and storytelling. Let’s turn your story into a cover that captivates readers at first glance!
Every cover is quoted on its own, because the work varies so much. Three things move the figure: how many characters appear on it, how detailed the scene is, and whether you need the full wrap (front, spine and back) or the front alone. Send your page count and trim size and you will have a firm quote within one business day.
A cover commissioned on its own is quoted with its own timeline. A full picture book including the cover runs ten to fourteen weeks from accepted quote to print-ready files, with your review time at each stage built into that.
A print-ready PDF at 300 dpi in CMYK, with the correct bleed and trim for your printer, set up for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Barnes & Noble or EPUB. Tell us which one at the quote stage. If a printer ever rejects a file on specification, we fix it at no charge.
You do. Full copyright transfers to you on final payment, including commercial use. We ask only to show the finished cover in our portfolio, and even that is yours to decline.
No. Every cover is drawn by hand by a named illustrator, which is why the sketches and the discarded versions exist at all. The same cover goes through rough, line and colour before it reaches you.
A cover is not one image. What gets delivered, and what you should expect from anyone you commission:
If the interior pages need building to the same specification, that is our book formatting service, and it can be commissioned on its own. You can also work out the spine width for your own page count with the spine and cover size calculator.
Your cover will be seen at about the size of a postage stamp, in a grid of other covers, before anyone sees it full size. Most covers that fail commercially fail there: the title is unreadable at 100 pixels wide, or the artwork turns to mush, or it looks like a book for a different age group.
Every cover we design gets checked at thumbnail size before it is finished. It is a small discipline and it changes what the cover ends up looking like.
A cover designed alongside a full book is part of that book’s timeline, which runs ten to fourteen weeks. A cover commissioned on its own is faster, and the figure depends on how much original artwork it needs and how many characters appear on it.
Covers are quoted individually. Tell us about your book and we will come back within one business day; what changes the price of a book cover explains how a quote is built.
Tell us the page count, the characters and your deadline. We will send back a quote and a timeline within 24 hours.
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