This is a concept workbook series completed at San Diego City college. 

 

A series of workbooks for children ages 4-13 years old was needed to help students catch up to their grade levels in reading, language, and literature. National Geographic needed a design for these workbooks to reach a diverse demographic of students as well as teachers and educational affiliates. Appealing to this wide audience, my solution was to go back to the basics and utilize a commonly overlooked form of literature-graphic novels. Using a comic-book based design, this system provides a visual engagement for young students while keeping the older audience intrigued through the allusion of famous pieces of literature. To maintain neutrality in representing people, I chose to use animals as characters. The main character, Eli, has a gender-neutral name with a face is never seen. This allows any and all students to become this character and take a literary journey through the course of these workbooks.