The Book Cover of Algal Bloom
The Book Cover of Algal Bloom The story of Algal Bloom covers one particular summer of two girls when the lake near the summer home that they visit annually gets overtaken by algae. Throughout the story it’s reinforced to the girls how dangerous the algae is and how they shouldn’t go near it, but of course, by the end of the story the girls end up going swimming in the lake regardless and implicitly get sick. The story mainly focuses around this lake and the summer house for the setting and the two girls as the main characters instead of the parents or the third girl. Throughout the story the girls are always thinking about the lake and talking about it and it stays consistently prominent. I drew this cover in colored pencil because the story is recited from a kid’s perspective and it looks like something a kid would draw. It also looks like a kid drawing because I drew it and I am not very good at drawing. The cover consists of one of the summer homes with the lake right b...