Hey guys!

We are doing a book. Not just any book, but Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm. You will find the text for the book HERE thanks to the Gutenberg Project.

We will talk about the format and some specifications in class. I will update with more info soon!

In the meantime, below is the base grid that we will be using and some rough specifications.

Final page format will be 7″ x 8.5″ which will mean that your spreads in InDesign will end up being 8.5″ tall by 14″ wide. We will also be including an 1/8″ bleed on all sides of your spreads. The entire design will be done in Black and White + one PMS color that you select from a choice palette of colors.

We will use this grid as a standard for all of the pages of the book so that the text will have some common elements of format. How you use use that grid is up to you.

Download PDF of GRIDHERE.

There are 62 different fairy tales for you to chose from. Yay! You will find the text for the book HERE.

Here is the breakdown of each of the fairy tales. In class, pick one and let me know which one you pick. The only rule is that no two people can pick the same one!

1 THE GOLDEN BIRD
2 HANS IN LUCK
3 JORINDA AND JORINDEL
4 THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
5 OLD SULTAN
6 THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
7 BRIAR ROSE Niki Sauter
8 THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
9 THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES Christina Stone
10 THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE Mago Huang
11 THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR
12 THE FROG-PRINCE Aly Marteney
13 CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
14 THE GOOSE-GIRL
15 THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
16 RAPUNZEL
17 FUNDEVOGEL
18 THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR Jon Marchione
19 HANSEL AND GRETEL Janie Sanchez
20 THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE Esther Cho
21 MOTHER HOLLE
22 LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] Lindsey Kim
23 THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
24 TOM THUMB
25 RUMPELSTILTSKIN
26 CLEVER GRETEL
27 THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON
28 THE LITTLE PEASANT
29 FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
30 SWEETHEART ROLAND Mickey Quinn
31 SNOWDROP Alex Winkler
32 THE PINK
33 CLEVER ELSIE
34 THE MISER IN THE BUSH
35 ASHPUTTEL
36 THE WHITE SNAKE Brady Gurley
37 THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
38 THE QUEEN BEE
39 THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
40 THE JUNIPER-TREE Kirsty
41 THE TURNIP Stephani
42 CLEVER HANS
43 THE THREE LANGUAGES
44 THE FOX AND THE CAT
45 THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS
46 LILY AND THE LION Laura Baran
47 THE FOX AND THE HORSE
48 THE BLUE LIGHT
49 THE RAVEN
50 THE GOLDEN GOOSE Yang Xiao
51 THE WATER OF LIFE
52 THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN
53 THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
54 DOCTOR KNOWALL
55 THE SEVEN RAVENS
56 THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX
57 THE SALAD
58 THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS
59 KING GRISLY-BEARD
60 IRON HANS
61 CAT-SKIN
62 SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED Sarah Dodd

Each of you will have 16 pages of blank space to design with the given text. Think about hierarchy, readability, structure, and scale while designing. In addition to the Fairy Tale that you are choose, you will also have to design a Cover page for your Mini-Book and include an illuminated drop cap for the first letter of the story that you are working on.

Lastly, you may share the book with anyone that you choose as long as you give it to them as a gift and do not accept any payment for the text.

Enjoy!

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Here is the fonts, colors, and basic paragraph style that we are using.