This hand-lettered book stack painting features eighteen staples of nostalgic Young Adult literature. Each book is an existing cover variant, chosen to fill the color scheme I felt best represented the genre. All text is done freehand—no fonts in sight! The composition is then digitally painted, utilizing traditional watercolor techniques.

Novels featured:

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket [1999]
Choose Your Own Adventure: Trouble on Planet Earth by R.A. Montgomery [1984]
The Boxcar Children, #1 by Gertrude Chandler Warner [1924]
Animorphs, #1: The Invasion by K.A. Applegate [1996]
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume [1970]
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin [1978]
Holes by Louis Sachar [1998]
Matilda by Roald Dahl [1988]
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien [1937]
The Babysitter's Club, #1: Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin [1986]
The Giver by Lois Lowry [1993]
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster [1961]
Goosebumps, #1: Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine [1992]
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh [1964]
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg [1967]
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling [1997]
Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz [1981]
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein [1964]