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June 3, 2011 by Travis Jonker

Cover Curiosity: Hide and Seek

June 3, 2011 by Travis Jonker   16 comments

Sometimes they’re pretty close, sometimes they’re quite close, but rarely do two covers look as similar as the pair we have today. While one is for adults and one is for kids, I couldn’t help but share. First up, a book you’re probably familiar with:

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Mockingbird by Katheryn Erskine

And now, for the match:

Long Drive Home by Will Allison

Side by Side:

Dang. The use of the same stock photo makes this pair near record-setting in their similarity.

(Thanks to author/illustrator Katie Davis for the tip.)

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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  1. Lindsey Lane says

    June 3, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    That’s incredible. Did Erskine or Allison notice I wonder?

  2. Brenda Kahn says

    June 3, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    Yeah! I noticed that and posted about it last month! http://proseandkahn.livejournal.com/220785.html

    I was kind of surprised to learn that many covers are picked from stock photos. I guess it should be surprising that there aren’t more duplicates.

    brenda

    • Travis says

      June 3, 2011 at 11:15 pm

      Ah ha! I knew I couldn’t have been the first to post on this.

  3. :paula says

    June 10, 2011 at 8:10 am

    The cover of Eliot Schrefer’s The Deadly Sister is very much echoed by Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey, but there’s an adult book that I saw only once on the new fiction shelves that uses the same stock photo. I would love to line all three up but alas! Still keeping an eye out for that grownup book…

  4. Alison Eckes says

    July 12, 2011 at 10:37 am

    That one will be hard to beat. Although not of the same caliber as Mockingbird and Long Drive Home, check out a side by side of Sweetly by Jackson Pearce and Adam Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark and Grimm.

    • Travis says

      July 12, 2011 at 1:01 pm

      That is definitely a match, Alison – thanks for the heads up! I’ll have to post about it.

  5. avisannschild says

    July 15, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    I posted on these covers just a few days after you did — I hadn’t seen your post. I found a third cover that features the same girl in a different pose:
    http://shereadsandreads.blogspot.com/2011/06/similar-covers-girl-and-tree.html

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