You Wouldn't Want To Be.... 1999 - 2022 | David Salariya

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You Wouldn't Want To Be.... 1999 - 2022

Project type

70+ titles - 1999 - 2022 Information book series: First person narrative, putting the reader in the position of 'you are' and all the experiences that are happening in the book are happening to you. .

Location

London • New York

Publisher

Hachette/Wayland Imprint UK • Franklin Watts/Scholastic US • 2000
Salariya Book Co Imprint Book House UK • Scholastic US 2014
Bonnier UK • Scholastic US 2024

Date

1999 -2022

Role

Conceived, Created & Designed by David Salariya

Writers

Alex Woolf, Andrew Langley, David Antram, David Salariya writing as David Stewart, Fiona Macdonald, Ian Graham, Jacqueline Morley, Jen Green, Jim Pipe, John Malam, Kathryn Senior, Mark Bergin, Meredith Costain, Michael Ford, Peter Cook, Roger Canavan, Rupert Matthews

Illustrated by

David Antram

Back story of You Wouldn't Want To Be...series Created and Designed By David Salariya

Book Makers: The Backstory, Creation and Design of the Juvenile Nonfiction Book Series: You Wouldn't Want to Be...!, Starting With the First Historical Book for Kids in the Series:'You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy by David Stewart & Illustrated by David Antram

Black and white image showing cover design of You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy. Typeface used is 'Uncle Stinky'. Image is of a cartoon style drawing of a bandaged Egyptian mummy with open eyes. Book written by David Stewart/David Salariya. Illustrations by David Antram. Book series created and designed by David Salariya.

Black and white image showing cover design of You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy. Typeface used is 'Uncle Stinky'. Image is of a cartoon style drawing of a bandaged Egyptian mummy with open eyes. Book written by David Stewart/David Salariya. Illustrations by David Antram. Book series created and designed by David Salariya.

Double page spread from You Wouldn't Want To be an Egyptian Mummy showing a stage in the Mummification process, showing column 'what you will need' and 'Handy Hint' . The concept for the page design was a cookery book.

Double page spread from You Wouldn't Want To be an Egyptian Mummy showing a stage in the Mummification process, showing column 'what you will need' and 'Handy Hint' . The concept for the page design was a cookery book.

Pencil sketch by David Salariya to show the first stage in the embalming process to create an ancient Egyptian Mummy, showing an embalmers tent with a priest in an Anubis mask saying prayers while a woman questions an embalmer if she is getting the correct corpse back. Page shows all materials required in the embalming process.

Pencil sketch by David Salariya to show the first stage in the embalming process to create an ancient Egyptian Mummy, showing an embalmers tent with a priest in an Anubis mask saying prayers while a woman questions an embalmer if she is getting the correct corpse back. Page shows all materials required in the embalming process.

Pencil layout for You Wouldn't Want To Be an Egyptian Mummy! Detail to show different categories of mummification: mummies holding signs cheap, ordinary and luxury.

Pencil layout for You Wouldn't Want To Be an Egyptian Mummy! Detail to show different categories of mummification: mummies holding signs cheap, ordinary and luxury.

Detail of pencil layouts for You Wouldn't want to be An Egyptian Mummy

Detail of pencil layouts for You Wouldn't want to be An Egyptian Mummy

Detail of pencil layouts for You Wouldn't want to be An Egyptian Mummy

Detail of pencil layouts for You Wouldn't want to be An Egyptian Mummy

Black and white thumbnail sketch from flat plan by David Salariya designing the layouts for You Wouldn't want to be an Egyptian Mummy

Black and white thumbnail sketch from flat plan by David Salariya designing the layouts for You Wouldn't want to be an Egyptian Mummy

Egyptian Mummy with ginger cat.

Egyptian Mummy with ginger cat.

You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy! Pencil of embalmers tent.

You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy! Pencil of embalmers tent.

Thumbnail sketch for sequence in embalming process of an ancient Egyptian Mummy.

Thumbnail sketch for sequence in embalming process of an ancient Egyptian Mummy.

You Wouldn't want to be an Egyptian Mummy! Thumbnail

You Wouldn't want to be an Egyptian Mummy! Thumbnail

You Wouldn't want to be an Egyptian Mummy! Thumbnails showing flat plan of the design layouts for the book.

You Wouldn't want to be an Egyptian Mummy! Thumbnails showing flat plan of the design layouts for the book.

You Wouldn't Want To be an Ancient Egyptian Mummy! Thumbnail sketch.

You Wouldn't Want To be an Ancient Egyptian Mummy! Thumbnail sketch.

Ancient Egyptian Mummy. Flat plan drawings by David Salariya

Ancient Egyptian Mummy. Flat plan drawings by David Salariya

Ancient Egyptian Mummy. Flat plan drawings by David Salariya

Ancient Egyptian Mummy. Flat plan drawings by David Salariya

Ancient Egyptian Mummy. Pencil by David Salariya for You Wouldn't Want To be an Egyptian Mummy - showing embalmers tent.

Ancient Egyptian Mummy. Pencil by David Salariya for You Wouldn't Want To be an Egyptian Mummy - showing embalmers tent.

Cover for You Wouldn't Want To Be A Roman Gladiator!

Cover for You Wouldn't Want To Be A Roman Gladiator!

You Wouldn't Want To Be Web Books

You Wouldn't Want To Be Web Books

Group of men playing draughts - with speech bubbles.

Group of men playing draughts - with speech bubbles.

14 covers for You Wouldn't want to be... book covers. series created and designed by David Salariya

14 covers for You Wouldn't want to be... book covers. series created and designed by David Salariya

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