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New Project Proposals & Commissions

 

If you have a new assignment or collaboration to propose, please visit our CONTACT US page.

 

To help us evaluate your request efficiently, please write to our Shannon Associates Team via email info@shannonassociates.com  (Phone: +1 212.333.2551) with everything we should know about the project, including:

 

•  The Timeline & Schedule

•  The Budget & Usage

•  The Style & Aesthetic Direction

•  The Number of Images & Subject Matter

•  The Project's Objectives & Goals

 

Our team will review your proposal and provide you with all the necessary information quickly.  Many thanks for your help!

 

 

 

Direct Contacts & Credits


 

Special Projects & Fine Press

 

For limited editions, private commissions, or special artistic collaborations, you can reach our studio directly. 

 

Please visit our CONTACT US page and fill out our contact form. Your request will reach us immediately. We welcome proposals for:

 

•  Gallery exhibitions, art shows, and museum invitations
•  Stock Image Licensing (to use our existing images, please visit our STOCK LICENSING page)
•  Interviews and press/blog features
•  International competition jury invitations
• Talks, lectures, and panel proposals (please note: we do    not conduct workshops)
•  Non-profit initiatives and special events

 

 

 

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Book Covers & Editorial Art | Balbusso Twins

A Comprehensive Chronicle of International Book Cover Illustrations.

 

Welcome to our Book Covers gallery. Throughout our career, we have had the privilege of collaborating with the world’s leading publishing houses across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia.

 

Since 2005, we have illustrated over 70 book covers for children, teen, young adult, and adult audiences, exploring many genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Biographies of famous people, Poetry, Fairy tales and Legends, and Non-fiction.

 

This curated archive showcases our contemporary cover designs. Our unique visual approach bridges the gap between traditional fine art and modern digital graphic intensity, bringing powerful storytelling to the global publishing landscape and drawing the attention of art collectors and cultural institutions worldwide.

 

Some publishers we worked with:

 

Saturday Books • Walt Disney Hyperion • Union Square & Co. • HarperCollins • Penguin Random House • Groundwood Books • Knopf Books • Simon & Schuster • Candlewick Press • Adaptive Books • Orbit Books • Tor Books • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • Scholastic • Reclam Verlag • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • Holiday House Inc. • Macmillan • Watkins Publishing • The Folio Society • Penguin Group • Headline Publishing Group • Éditions Gallimard • Éditions Milan • Actes Sud Éditions • Rizzoli Libri • Mondadori Ragazzi • De Agostini Group • Black Cat • Einaudi Ragazzi • Edizioni EL

Last Cover Books 2025-2026

 

  • 2026 A Wall Is Also a Road by Annalee Newitz, Tor Books, US
  • 2026 Building 903 by Lois Lowry, HarperCollins Clarion Books, US
  • 2026 Witch Dance by Isabel Ibañez, Saturday Books, US
  • 2026 Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez, Saturday Books, St. Martin's Publishing Group, US
  • 2025 A River Enchanted (Deluxe Collector's Edition: A Novel) by Rebecca Ross, HarperCollins, US
  • 2025 Thirsty Ground by Kimber St. Lawrence, Union Square & Co., US
  • 2025 At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, US
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Cover Artworks Children, Teen, Young Adult audience Books

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Cover Artworks Adult audience Books

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Selected Book Covers

 

  • 2026 A Wall Is Also a Road by Annalee Newitz, Tor Books, US
  • 2026 Building 903 by Lois Lowry, HarperCollins Clarion Books, US
  • 2026 Witch Dance by Isabel Ibañez, Saturday Books, US
  • 2026 Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez, Saturday Books, St. Martin's Publishing Group, US
  • 2025 A River Enchanted (Deluxe Collector's Edition: A Novel) by Rebecca Ross, HarperCollins, US
  • 2025 Thirsty Ground by Kimber St. Lawrence, Union Square & Co., US
  • 2025 At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, US
  • 2024 These Deathless Shores by P.H. Low, Orbit Books, US
  • 2024 Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood by Robert Beatty, Disney Hyperion, US
  • 2024 Circus of Mirrors by Julie Owen Moylan, Penguin Books, UK
  • 2024 I Had a Fire Inside (Avevo un fuoco dentro) by Tea Ranno, Mondadori Strade Blu, IT
  • 2024 Sicilian Fairy Tales: From the Collection of Italo Calvino (Fiabe Siciliane), DTV Verlagsgesellschaft, Germany
  • 2024 Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, UK
  • 2023-2024 Menewood by Nicola Griffith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, US / Picador, UK
  • 2023 Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, UK
  • 2023 Harboring Hope by Susan Hood, HarperCollins, US
  • 2023 Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, UK
  • 2022 The Rabbit’s Gift by Jessica Vitalis, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, US
  • 2022 Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood, HarperCollins, US
  • 2022 The Burning Swift (Shadow Skye, Book Three) by Joseph Elliott, Walker Books, US
  • 2021 The Science of Happiness (La scienza della felicità) by Francesco and Luca Cavalli-Sforza, BUR Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, IT
  • 2021 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, Mondadori Oscar Classici Cult, IT
  • 2021 Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens 6) by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, UK
  • 2021 Long Lost by Jacqueline West, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, US
  • 2021 The Wolf's Course by Jessica Vitalis, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, US
  • 2021 The Broken Raven (Shadow Skye, Book Two) by Joseph Elliott, Walker Books, US
  • 2020 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, GUOMAI Culture & Media Co., Ltd., China
  • 2020 Cinders and Sparrows by Stefan Bachmann, HarperCollins Publishers, US
  • 2020 Edited by Ellen Datlow, Subterranean Press, US
  • 2020 Mermaid Moon by Susan Cokal, Candlewick Press, US
  • 2020 Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen (Six Tudor Queens 5) by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, London, UK
  • 2020 The Good Hawk (Shadow Skye, Book One) by Joseph Elliott, Walker Books, US
  • 2019 Jane Austen: An English Passion (Jane Austen: Une Passion Anglaise) by Fiona Stafford, Tallandier, France
  • 2019 The Circumference of a Cloud (La circonferenza di una nuvola) by Carolina Capria, HarperCollins Italia, IT
  • 2019 The Nothing We Know: (And The Something We Don't) (An Academy Adventure) by Gregory Bonsignore, Adaptive Books, US
  • 2019 Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets (Six Tudor Queens 4) by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, London, UK
  • 2018 The Devil in the Drawer (Il Diavolo nel cassetto) by Paolo Maurensig, Frontiere, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Turin, IT
  • 2018 Never That Far by Carol Lynch Williams, Deseret Book, US
  • 2018 Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen (Six Tudor Queens 3) by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, London, UK
  • 2018 Fatal Throne by Candace Fleming, M.T. Anderson, Jennifer Donnelly, Stephanie Hemphill, Deborah Hopkinson, Linda Sue Park, Lisa Ann Sandell, Schwartz & Wade, US
  • 2018 Strange Star by Emma Carroll, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Random House, US
  • 2017 Half of the Sun (La metà del sole) by Daniela Morelli, Collana Vortici, Il Battello a Vapore, Milan, IT
  • 2017 The Sisters of the Crescent Empress by Leena Likitalo, Tor Books, US
  • 2017 The Five Daughters of the Moon by Leena Likitalo, Tor Books, US
  • 2017 Pride and Prejudice (Orgueil et Préjugés) by Jane Austen, Collection Classiques abrégés, L’école des loisirs, France
  • 2017 Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Six Tudor Queens 2) by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, London, UK
  • 2016 Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens 1) by Alison Weir, Headline Publishing Group, London, UK
  • 2016 Richard II: A Brittle Glory by Laura Ashe, Penguin Monarchs, UK
  • 2016 Chloe in India by Kate Darnton, Children’s Middle Grade Books, Penguin Random House, US
  • 2016 Mischief at Midnight by Esme Kerr, Scholastic, US
  • 2015 Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter, Tor Books, US
  • 2015 Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, US
  • 2015 After the Ashes by Sara K Joiner, Holiday House, US
  • 2015 The Girls with the Glass Bird by Esme Kerr, Scholastic, US
  • 2015 Searching for Silverheels by Jeannie Mobley, Simon & Schuster, Margaret K. McElderry Books, US
  • 2015 Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books, Penguin Group, US
  • 2014 The Prince of the City of Sand (Il principe della città di sabbia) by Pierdomenico Baccalario, Enzo D'Alò, and Gaston Kaboré, Oscar Mondadori Junior, Milan, IT
  • 2014 The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Tor Books, US
  • 2013 Middlemarch by George Eliot, Penguin Readers Pearson, UK
  • 2013 Hild by Nicola Griffith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, US
  • 2013 Victor Hugo: The Childhood of a Poet (Victor Hugo: L’enfance d’un poète) by Philippe Schmitt-Kummerlee, Belin Jeunesse, FR.
  • 2012 My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt, Groundwood Books, Canada
  • 2012 Sisters of Glass by Stephanie Hemphill, Penguin Random House, US
  • 2011 The Daughter of the Moon (La figlia della luna) by Margaret Mahy, Mondadori Ragazzi, Milan, IT
  • 2011 The Magical Story of King Arthur (La magica storia di re Artù) by Paola Zannoner, Junior Oro, Mondadori, Milan, IT
  • 2011 Anne of Brittany (Anne de Bretagne) by Catherine de Lasa, Collection Mon Histoire, Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, France
  • 2010 On the Impressionists' Side (Du côté des impressionnistes) by Clara Borreau, Collection Mon Histoire, Gallimard Jeunesse, FR.
  • 2008 The Giver (L’Élue) by Lois Lowry, Folio Junior, Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, France
  • 2008 The Princess Academy (Le collège des princesses) by Shannon Hale, Folio Junior, Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, France
  • 2007 The Liar (Le Menteur) by Henry James, Écoutez lire, Gallimard, Paris, France
  • 2007 Avalon High by Meg Cabot, Fabbri Editore, IT
  • 2006 I Love You, I Love You, I Love You... (Je t’aime, Je t’aime, Je t’aime…) by Bernard Friot, Milan Poche Junior Poésie, Éditions Milan, France
  • 2006 Bosom Friends (Amis de cœur) by Kate Banks, Collection Scripto, Gallimard Jeunesse, France
  • 2005 The Secret Name of War (Il nome segreto della guerra) by Nicoletta Vallorani, Salani Editore, IT