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April 27, 2015 by Travis Jonker

Challenge! Create a Book Cover for this Bookless Character

April 27, 2015 by Travis Jonker   12 comments

Last week I passed along a question author/illustrator Matthew Cordell posed on Facebook: who is this character on the walls of Barnes & Noble stores across the country?

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Update: no one knows.

So author/illustrator Aaron Zenz had a good idea: why not take matters into our own hands?

Lets give this little blue wolf (a wolf, right? Wolf? I don’t know) a home!

I challenge anyone and everyone to create a book cover featuring this character. Tweet your cover with the hashtag #LBB or email them to me at scopenotes@gmail.com.

In one week I’ll post a gallery of submissions.

I’ll go first:

This will be fun.


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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. marjorie says

    April 27, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    Rabid…for Reading!

  2. James Martin says

    April 27, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    A Green Book For a Blue Mood.

  3. Lesley says

    April 27, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    Will Blow Your House Down for Books!

  4. Lauren says

    April 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    Blue Wolf’s Day At School

  5. Lauren says

    April 28, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    The Wolf Who Cried SCHOOL!

  6. Emily says

    April 28, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    Where The Wild Wolves Read!

  7. Julian Bartoaz says

    April 28, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    The Wolf Who cried ” I got to go to work”

  8. Lauren says

    April 28, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    The Wolf Who Loved School

  9. Emily says

    April 28, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    A Book a Day Keeps the Wolves Away!

  10. Lauren says

    April 28, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    Never Let Go Of Your Books

  11. Sharon says

    April 28, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    The Wolf Who Wanted a Friend

  12. Claudia says

    April 30, 2015 at 1:13 pm

    Pete the Wolf and his Groovy Green Suitcase

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