The Wild Bunch is a chapter book I had the honor to illustrate for Simon & Schuster. It's about three unlikely friends—brainiac Hector, bullish Jack, and sarcastic Paul— as they find themselves braving the wilderness in search of the mythical Beast of Bear Falls. 

Below are the preliminary sketches for the project, 4 similar concepts with different layouts. When I joined this project, the book didn't have a title so The Weekenders was there for placement. 

Below is the first version of the final book cover before edits. We later made the protagonist taller, the boy in the blue younger looking, and the snake on the bottom left less scary. We also added in the text, Black Widow Spider, and the sandwich bag into the final.