Let your students become authors and illustrators with this engaging The Truck Cat Book Cover Design activity!

This creative and literacy-rich task invites students to design their own version of a book cover inspired by The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel. Using the structured template, students will practise writing a blurb, create a short author biography and illustrate their own front cover based on their understanding and personal response to the story.

How to Complete

After reading and discussing The Truck Cat as a class, students complete their book cover template by:

1. Designing a front cover illustration that reflects the story’s themes, setting, or characters - such as Tinka, Yacoub, or the Australian landscape.
2. Writing a blurb that captures the main idea, characters, and mood of the story, and a short author biography.

Additional Tips

1. Once complete, the covers can be trimmed and backed on coloured card.
2. To create a fun display, fold the covers along the spine, then pin or staple them to a bulletin board to create a 3D effect.

This activity is a fun and purposeful way for students to connect with The Truck Cat through both writing and art.

This resource is part of our The Truck Cat: Book PACKAGE.