Narrator: The Troll Queen

The Troll Queen is the reason the story exists. She is a hideous troll, with supernatural powers, and the daughter of the Troll King. When she is young, she encounters a human boy. She decides that he is her future husband, but her father sets an enchantment on the boy as a punishment to his daughter for being disobedient. The Troll Queen is cruel to all humans but this one, and she is harsh and brash, but secretly longs for the soft skin and coloring of humans.

For the Troll Queen, I chose to use the font Rockwell. Rockwell is heavy, unyielding, and bold. I thought it would be perfect for the Troll Queen, who is also heavy, unyielding and bold.

The text is aligned to the left side because it is more traditional, and also to help the reader more easily read the pages. The font for the Troll Queen can be harder to read, so aligning to the text to the left will make it easier for the reader to follow along with the story. The reader will be able to more fully appreciate the bold text and the words.

Final Project

My book for the final project is called "North Child" by Edith Pattou.

Summary: North Child is a deftly woven tapestry that melds traditional fairy tale motifs of both Beauty and the Beast and East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with the haunting icy lore of medieval northern lands. Told in a changing chorus of voices, including that of Rose, her hopeful brother Neddy, her regretful father, the charmed white bear, and the Troll Queen whose selfish wish is the catalyst that seals Rose’s fate, North Child will enchant any and all who venture within its pages.

I have chosen the characters of Rose, The White Bear, Neddy, and the Troll Queen for my project.

Dust Jacket Correction

Macabre definition-revised

This is the revised version of the word 'macabre.' I was originally trying to rework the old version into a more streamlined version of the same thing, with Edward Gorey as my influence. After several hours of experimenting with different versions of the Gorey-influenced definition, I realized that it was just not a style suited to the dictionary.

I decided to rethink the concept of 'macabre' in the context of a children's dictionary. I thought about the other definitions, and how they are more oriented towards children. I then thought about how I would define 'macabre' to a child. Children generally don't have a real concept of death. Usually, their first encounter with death is in the form of a pet. So if I were going to define macabre to a child, it would probably involve an example of the death of a pet.

typography definition revised

Word Definition

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