Cover Image Prompt¶

Please generate a professional-quality cover image for this textbook. This image will be used in social media previews and must follow the formatting guidelines for an Open Graph image preview.

Required specifications: - Format: PNG - Wide-landscape format - Size: 1200x630 pixels (1.91:1 aspect ratio) - This is the Open Graph standard for social media previews

The image has four layers, back to front: background montage, color treatment, mascot, and title text.

Subject & Tone¶

Health Education is a K-12 teaching-resource collection spanning six health strands — Food and Nutrition, Human Growth and Development, Mental and Emotional Health, Personal Health and Wellness, Personal Safety and Violence Prevention, and Substance Use Awareness and Prevention — written for every grade band from Kindergarten through high school. The intended audience is K-12 classroom teachers, curriculum coordinators, and students. The visual tone should be warm, bright, and approachable — cheerful and welcoming like a friendly classroom poster, not clinical or textbook-dry — while still reading as credible and well organized.

Title¶

Place Health Education in the center of the image, in a clean, highly legible rounded sans-serif font. Use a white (or very light) font color with a subtle drop shadow or soft dark scrim behind it so it stays readable against the busy montage background. Keep the two words large and centered; stack them on two lines ("Health" over "Education") if that reads more clearly. Do not shrink the title to fit — instead keep generous, calmer negative space directly behind the text.

Background Montage¶

Arrange a montage of the following 8 concepts around the title, each rendered in a consistent flat-cartoon-vector illustration style (see Style below) so the composition reads as one cohesive image rather than a collage of unrelated styles. Spread them in a loose ring around the centered title, and keep the lower-left corner clear for the mascot:

Balanced Plate (Food & Nutrition) — a colorful top-down dinner plate divided into four food groups: red apple slices and leafy greens, orange carrots, tan whole grains, and a lean protein. Bright and instantly readable.
Feelings & Emotions (Mental & Emotional Health) — a small cluster of three rounded, expressive faces showing happy, calm, and worried feelings, paired with a simple "feelings weather" motif (a sun peeking out from behind a cloud).
Handwashing & Hygiene (Personal Health & Wellness) — a pair of cupped hands covered in white soap bubbles with a small 20-second timer arc curving around them. Clean blue-and-white palette.
Active Play (Personal Health & Wellness) — a cheerful child mid-jump with a jump rope (or kicking a ball) on green grass, conveying movement and physical activity.
Bike & Gear Safety (Personal Safety) — a friendly bicycle helmet with a small buckled seatbelt icon beside it, signaling "buckle up and gear up." A clean, recognizable safety symbol.
Safe Voice & Trusted Adults (Personal Safety & Violence Prevention) — a small child's hand reaching up to a caring grown-up's hand, with a soft speech bubble containing a heart. Rendered sincerely and warmly.
The Growing Brain (Substance Use Awareness & Brain Health) — a friendly, softly glowing stylized brain in teal and purple, suggesting healthy choices and a developing mind.
Growing Up (Human Growth & Development) — a height/growth ruler with three ascending figures (small to taller) beside it, showing growth over time.

Mascot¶

Place the book's mascot, Scout the Dog, in the lower-left corner in a cheerful welcome / waving pose, sized so it does not overlap the title text or crowd the montage elements. Scout is a friendly golden retriever rendered in flat cartoon vector style: warm golden-tan fur (hex #D9A455), floppy ears, a simple triangular neckerchief in deep orange (hex #EF6C00), a warm closed-mouth smile, and soft, kind eyes. In this pose Scout faces the viewer and waves cheerfully with one front paw raised, expression warm and welcoming — as if saying "welcome, let's get started." A reference image is available at docs/img/mascot/welcome.png.

Style & Composition¶

Illustration style: flat cartoon vector with clean lines and gentle rounded shapes — the same style as the Scout mascot — applied consistently to every montage element so the whole cover feels unified and child-friendly.
Color palette: bright and friendly, anchored by the mascot's golden-tan (#D9A455) and deep orange (#EF6C00), plus fresh leaf green, sky blue, and soft accents of teal and coral. Keep it cheerful and high-clarity, not neon.
Lighting/mood: bright, optimistic, and welcoming, with soft even lighting and no harsh shadows.
Composition: title centered with calm negative space behind it; the 8 montage elements arranged in a loose ring around the title; Scout the Dog waving in the lower-left corner. Balance the visual weight so the lower-left mascot is offset by montage elements toward the upper-right.

Avoid¶

Do not render dense paragraphs of illegible text anywhere in the image (short labels or a single food/emotion icon are fine).
Avoid generic stock-photo cliches (handshakes, isolated lightbulbs, people pointing at whiteboards) unless explicitly listed above.
Avoid photorealistic human faces or realistic medical/clinical imagery — keep people simple, friendly, and cartoon-styled.
Do not let montage elements visually compete with or overlap the centered title or the lower-left mascot.
Keep the Personal Safety and Substance Use imagery sincere and reassuring — no scary, graphic, or alarming depictions.