The Trail - Endpages for Scholastic

Back in the summer of 2016 I was contacted by Scholastic to work with them on the endpapers for a book they were publishing called The Trail by Meika Hashimoto. The story follows Toby as he hikes a portion of the Appalachian Trail through the White Mountains in New Hampshire into Maine toward Katahdin. I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript before working on them, which I often find helpful to get the feel and flavor of the work. It's target audience is young adult but it was still a pleasant read. I believe the paperback will still feature the maps in some fashion.

The project had some decent challenges and a fair amount of research involved and was one of the most interesting map projects I had worked on to that point. It was completed in February of this year [2017] and the book was published on July 25th and is out in hardback.