How to make a paper bag textbook cover: Lay the book on the paper bag to get proper height and length. 3. Fold the top and bottom to the size of the book. Use the book as a guide to mark the height.

For example, the cover for Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter and The Member Of The Wedding uses a repeat pattern of jalopy trucks left to rot in an overgrown field.

The eight novels all feature a different colourful front and back cover design, which are based on patterns created by New York-based artist Lourdes Sanchez. Sanchez was commissioned by Penguin Random ...