MORE 'COVER-CURIOSITY' POSTS

Cover Controversy: Blatent Barrette Banning

Travis Jonker, May 6, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



Reader Misti clued me in to the fact that a trend first unearthed by A Fuse #8 Production seems to be growing. In what could be nothing other than a cost-saving move, more and more book cover photo-shoot crews have chosen to forgo a hairstylist completely, with shockingly unkempt and windblown results. Let’s have a […]

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Cover Controversy: Flying Away

Travis Jonker, April 22, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



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; […]

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Cover Controversy: Shut It

Travis Jonker, April 16, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



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 […]

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Cover Controversy: It’s Psycho

Travis Jonker, March 9, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



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 […]

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Cover Controversy: It’s a Secret

Travis Jonker, February 25, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



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)

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Cover Controversy: Cut-Outs Continue

Travis Jonker, February 19, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



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: […]

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Cover Controversy: Marcelo in the Spiderwick Chronicles

Travis Jonker, February 9, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



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 […]

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Cover Controversy: Gears Are Turning

Travis Jonker, February 9, 2010 | Cover Curiosity, Covers



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 […]

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Cover Controversy: Benedict Society Under Glass

Travis Jonker, January 23, 2010 | Cover Curiosity



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 […]

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Cover Controversy: Paper Bag Dragons

Travis Jonker, January 13, 2010 | Cover Curiosity



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, […]

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