The second design is an alternate book cover to Nikki Grimes’ novel, Bronx Masquerade. The actual novel is about a class of mixed race, ethnicity and gender during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. The students create poems about their lifestyles and come to realizations that they have more in common with one another than they thought. When I hear masquerade, I immediately think masks, gowns, costumes, the whole nine yards. The book cover I went for certainly has more of the masquerade ball effect. I did all of the editing to this image in paint artist as well.