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April 22, 2010 by Travis Jonker

Cover Controversy: Flying Away

April 22, 2010 by Travis Jonker   12 comments

Knock, knock.

Who’s there?

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Hey, mon…

Wow. Is this some sort of lame Jamaican stereotype knock knock joke? That’s in pretty poor taste.

…arch butterflies seem to be on a lot of book covers lately.

Oh, heh. Hey monarch butterflies seem to be on a lot of book covers lately who?

This isn’t a joke; I was actually just knocking on your door to tell you the news since I know you’re into book covers.

Thanks.

Just in time for spring, butterflies are emerging from their pupae to grace YA book covers. Thanks to Bookends for their keen eye in noticing this trend. Take a look:

To Come and Go Like Magic by Katie Pickard Fawcett.

Dream Life by Lauren Mechling.

Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher.

There is certainly a theme shared here. Any to add?

Filed under: Cover Curiosity, Covers

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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Comments

  1. Madigan McGillicuddy says

    April 22, 2010 at 3:22 am

    I wish someone would do a re-design for the Dear Mr. Henshaw cover featuring Monarch butterflies! That would be so rad.

    • Travis says

      April 22, 2010 at 8:28 am

      That would be cool. My one hesitation would be that butterflies might scare off boy readers – do you think this would be the case?

  2. kelly says

    April 22, 2010 at 6:50 am

    I have some!

    The hardcover and paperback of this bad boy show off the monarch/butterfly: http://www.amazon.com/Luna-Julie-Anne-Peters/dp/0316011274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271933294&sr=8-1

    and

    http://www.wppl.org/teens/images/wright_when.jpg

    • Travis says

      April 22, 2010 at 8:29 am

      Wow, thanks for sending these along. I’ll have to do an update!

  3. melissa @ 1lbr says

    April 22, 2010 at 11:39 am

    Well, I don’t think it’s a monarch (and it might not even be a butterfly, but a moth), however Secret Speakers by K.S.R. Kingworth has something winged on the front 🙂

  4. Abby says

    April 22, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    It’s not out until November, but INCONVENIENT by Margie Gelbwasser has a butterfly on the cover. It’s kinda monarch-ish…

    http://www.fluxnow.com/product.php?ean=9780738721484

  5. Katie Pickard Fawcett says

    April 22, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    Thanks for highlighting my book, To Come and Go Like Magic, with its butterfly cover!! I hope you also enjoy reading it. 🙂

    • Travis says

      April 22, 2010 at 11:03 pm

      Thanks for stopping by! I’m looking forward to reading To Come and Go.

  6. Jacket Whys says

    April 23, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    I hadn’t seen the bottom two, so thanks for pointing them out. Your post inspired me to pull together the butterfly book covers I’ve been collecting.

  7. Kimberly Joy Peters says

    April 23, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    Alea (Pop Culture Junkie) did some butterfly covers as part of her lookalikes series last year. You will have scroll down the page, but they are here (some Monarchish, most on shoulders).

    http://aleapopculture.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html

    Funny how everyone wants a butterfly on their shoulder, but nobody wants a spider…

  8. Meg says

    May 6, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    Imagaine one Australian’s authors dismay when her book cover featuring a butterfly, the same image was used to advertise butchers!

    The Grief Book
    by Elizabeth Vercoe

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