MORE 'COVER-CURIOSITY' POSTS
Knock, knock. Who’s there? 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; […]
Books – frustrating, aren’t they? Covers always wanting to flap open, all those pages so easily turned. Recently, a group of book covers have tried solving this problem. The cover artwork isn’t similar, but they all have one element that (bad pun alert!) binds them together: Queste by Angie Sage. The Flight of the Phoenix […]
Excuse me as I go a little YA for a minute. Bookends bloggers Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan tipped me off to a recent cover similarity that can’t be denied. The gist? You fear what you can’t completely see. The first cover please… Possessed by Kate Cann. Spooky, right? And now, the doppelganger: The Pickpocket’s […]
I have a new cover I want to show you. It kinda follows a trend. But it’s a surprise. Click here to take a look. Thanks for your time. (Thanks to Abigail from Hedgehog Librarian for the lead)
If you know me, then you know I enjoy the cheap satisfaction of seeing the continuation of a cover trend. This has certainly happened with sock covers, a topic which I continue to beat upon like the proverbial “dead horse”. Today, I’m pleased to see that we have a new inductee into a different group: […]
As well reported at Jacket Knack, silhouettes are a cover trend on the rise. The following pair of covers both sport silhouettes, but with a couple additional elements that strengthen the correlation. Let’s take a look at the first cover: Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork. And now, the counterpart: The Spiderwick […]
Is it fair to call two covers that appear similar a controversy? Probably not. Liar? Magic Under Glass? Mysterious Benedict Society? Now those are some legitimate cover controversies. What I put forth today is more of a gentle Cover Curio. Let’s take a look… Incarceron by Catherine Fisher. Hot off the presses! This book (which […]
Two recent cover curiosities have me perplexed for the same reason – characters described as decidedly not Caucasian in the text are presented that way on the book jacket. Both are unacceptable. The first, concerning Jaclyn Dolamore’s YA title Magic Under Glass, has already been nicely discussed and fully linked at Abby (the) Librarian and […]
For the first Cover Controversy of 2010, we’ve got a pair of titles that match up more than most. It’s almost… controversial. Let’s have a gander at the first cover: Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature by Leonard S. Marcus. What’s that, you say? Not a children’s book? Oh, […]
I had designs on highlighting this cover trend a while ago, but I held off because I thought it might be fizzling out. Not so! After coming upon a couple more examples recently, I realize that holding stuff is still hot. But first: the hands that started it all? Logo for Allstate Insurance. Eventually, cover […]
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