Zaner-Bloser Superkids Reading Program First Grade Skills Books

Art Direction, Book Layout

The Superkids Reading Program at Zaner-Bloser is a collection of products designed to help students learn to read in a fun, interactive way. The collection follows a group of kids called The Superkids, through kindergarten, first and second grade. During my time at Zaner-Bloser, I was the lead designer on the Skills Books for all three grades.

The first grade Skills Books, as shown here, built on the skills students learned in the Kindergarten books. They included games, short stories, sentence building and grammar lessons. As the lead designer on these books, I designed the layouts for all of the page types, provided art direction for the illustrations and collaborated with cross-functional partners to develop the final products. Here is a sampling of spreads showing the variety of page types in the books.