Category UnBooks

Time goes fast when your having fun

I have been working on this for the last several hours looking forward to posting to illustrationfriday.com for the word “double”. Apparently last week went faster than expected and so here is a new but late unbook. Click the image…

Illustration Friday | Breakfast

Breakfast I couldn’t help it. This is a recycled image but it fit the word so well. Thanks as always to illustrationfriday.com.

Illustraton Friday | dip

When I first looked at the word for the week the very first thing that I noticed was that it could be flipped over and still be read correctly. I wish that I had a great story to go with…

The Marvelous Mr. Mud

The Marvelous Mr. Mud is the story of dirt, water and children. I love a good mud-day and so does Mr, Mud. He plays along with the kids in this UnBook by Scott E Franson that will never be published…

Illustration Friday: canned

The soundtrack of my youth began everyday after school. I would get home and watch Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie. It was a simple and good life back in the olden days. We only…

Colandar Girl

MISSING: Baby girl wearing a diaper and a t-shirt with a colander on her head. You heard me correctly, a colander on her head. Based on a true story that has nothing to do with my sister:) After a frantic…

Illustration Friday: Scale

Scale is the smallest dragon in the world. His favorite thing to eat is dandelion blossoms. Life as Scale knows it is about to change. One of his scales can bring wealth beyond dreams to the one who possesses it.…

Illustration Friday: Emergency

Many things are Emergencies in out lives. Saving rare species should be one of them. An UnBook of rare Species. This one is so rare I don’t even know what to call it.

Illustration Friday: Missing

Missing is a book to challenge the reader to discover what is missing in the image. It is an Un Book by Scott E. Franson.

Illustration Friday: Moon

RaMoona the Brave: Going where no cow has gone before, is the newest addition to the UnBook collection. Now I know that Mother Goose claims that the cow jumped over the moon, but we all know that the incident in…

Illustration Friday: geeky

Geeky It is official and everyone knows it! You want your child to grow up to be a geek because the geeks make all the money! This is your step by step guide to raising your child to be a…

Illustration Friday: twist

Have you ever noticed that it is always the pickle jar lid that gets stuck? There is a reason! Don’t Twist is a book about the evils of pickles. I hate pickles to put it mildly. I would love to…

Illustration Friday: camouflage

Candy is bound and determined to find out the answer to the mystery. With the help of her camouflage dress and quick thinking she is sure to find the answer. As for the rest of us we will never know…

Illustration Friday: snap

Snap The cold snap came in the evening freezing the duck into the pond. “I should have started flying south sooner” said the duck. But he didn’t and so now we have a story. We all want to know that…

Illustration Friday: communication

Confidential, is the story of a young man sending a love letter in smoke signals. The only problem is that the wrong person received his communication. Will he live happily ever after with his true love? The world will never…

Illustration Friday: gravity

What if? These are the questions that all children ask and want to know the answers to. This Un-Book explores “What if” questions about gravity.

Illustration Friday: crash

My newest un-book was inspired by my son trying to make a paper airplane. Just when he thought he had the perfect airplane the first test flight resulted in a spectacular crash. (I actually think he was trying to crash…

Illustration Friday: Sprout

Thump. What was that? I thought to myself. It was a bird, there are feathers on the window. Is the bird dead? I wonder, but I don’t see it and so it must be OK. A bit later in the…

Illustration Friday: red

The newest Un-Book by Scott E Franson is called Red River, and is the story of blood. Other than that, I don’t know what the story is about. You tell me.

Illustration Friday: Super Hero

Ben gets stung by a bee and becomes BeeBoy! The story explores his new found powers. Find out how he uses his unusual powers in the newest Un-Book by Scott E Franson, that will never be at a bookstore near…

Illustration Friday: 80s

School Bus: Memoir of a Bus Driver. . . . 89 Bottles of beer on the wall!! 89 bottles of beer . . . The field trip has just begun and the students are only in the 80s. What will…

Illustration Friday: buzz

Buzz is the newest un-book. I had fun making this image. I am always struggling to keep emotion in my images because of the style. I hope that you like this new character, even if you hate mosquitos.

Illustration Friday: Phoenix

Phoenix, For the Very First Time*, is the newest Un-Book that will never be at a fine bookstore near you. Here is a closeup. * My sincere apologies to Patricia MacLachlan, for using her title Arthur, For the Very First…

Illustration Friday: Peace

Introducing the first Alien to English Un-Book Dictionary that will help you avoid those uncomfortable situations when introducing yourself to the people of a new planet.

Illustration Friday: Help

This frog doesn’t need any help. In fact, help could be deadly. This new unbook will never be at a bookstore near you.

Illustration Friday: Mask

I Would Rather Be a Weed! is the newest unbook not by Scott E Franson. It will never be at a bookstore near you. I hope this image brings back good memories of Elementary School Theatrical productions.

Illustration Friday: smoke

Smoke: Feline P.I. When you just need to know, Smoke the Feline P.I., is the cat for the job. This is an UnBook not written by Scott E Franson. But you never know, one day when you least expect it…

Illustration Friday: wind2

Wind: The Plight of an Under Wound, Over Weight, Boy Robot. Boy Robot lives in a world where the robots rely on each other to be wound. He has come to the point in his life where fewer and fewer…

Illustration Friday: wind

This weeks UnBook is not a novel about the challenges of fighting forest fires in the western United States with an unforgiving wind.

Illustration Friday: Trouble

The words of my mother rang out in my ears,but I fear I was too late to see. “You can eat the leaves, the sweet green leaves,but beware of the scissor bird tree.” Here is a new book that will…

Illustration Friday: Quiet

Quiet Too Quiet, is this weeks new unBook that will never be at a store near you. Have you ever noticed that when the kids are quiet, it is a blessing, but if they are too quiet, there is a…

Illustration Friday: Phobia

Here is another publication that I did not write. But it is based on my real life phobia. I hated to go to the freezer when I was young because of the fish. Fish that my father caught, froze and…

Illustration Friday: Change

I didn’t write this publication and I am not going to change the baby:) You can see other books that I didn’t write here. More Covers You can see one book that is written & illustrated by Scott E Franson…

Illustration Friday: Farm

Announcing another publication that I didn’t write and will never be at a local store near you. I had fun making the image. I hope that you enjoy it.

Illustration Friday: Safe (again)

SAFE—As before this book is not available and was not written by Scott E Franson. What is different about this new book is that it happened by accident as I was working on a different project. It is also based…

Illustration Friday: Safe

SNOUT is a bedtime story in the great tradition of JAWS. This book was not written or illustrated by Scott E Franson and will never be at a bookstore near you.

Illustration Friday: Run

RUN is the gripping story of a rhino named Rhina and her first sleepover. It will never be at a bookstore near you and was not written by Scott E Franson