Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blogging initiative hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl with new themes each week.
This weeks theme is a Freebie with the theme of Book Covers. Now back in August I tweaked a Top Ten Tuesday prompt to show some love for some of my favourite Cover illustrators, designers and typography artists.
Today I’m going to revisit this idea featuring new covers and some new artists too and we can all wince again at how bad I am at describing art!
Kathrin Honesta
soft graphic shapes and brooding mood
The Girl Who Speaks Bear, No Ballet Shoes in Syria (Typography by Anneka Sandher) and the forthcoming Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things
Jamie Gregory
Illustrator and Designer that makes cover magic.
Alice Broadway’s Ink Trilogy, Wildspark (Illustration by George Ermos) The True Colours of Coral Glen & forthcoming Hold Back the Tide
Karl James Mountford
Bold Graphics and Quirky with a dash of darkness
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, Potkin & Stubbs series, A Place Called Perfect, The Uncommoners, FrostFire
Samuel Perrett
Illustrator & Book designer wizard who always seems to capture the magic and feel of a book
Twitter – an Article on his process using Viper development as example
Viper, Venom, The Strangeways Travel Agency (Illustration by Natalie Smillie) Where the River Runs Gold (illustration by Evan Hollingdale)
Flavia Sorrentino
The Queen of the Hidden Dust Jacket but also bright, angular and vibrant with a sense of movement
The Train to Impossible Places, Princess BMX, Bloom, the upcoming Storm
Sandra Dieckmann
Dreamy, Airy and Pensive illustrations often with natural themes and a intricate heart
Nevertell, The Wild Folk, Wild Folk Rising, The Girl with the Sharks Teeth, The Ice Bear Miracle and her own picture books such as Leaf and the Dog that Ate the World
Manuel Šumberac
Shadowy Silhouettes and Skylines with a magical glow
The Nowhere Emporium and ElseWhere Emporium, Ned’s Circus of Marvels series, Orphans of the Tide, The Dalemark Quartet
Alex T Smith
In addition to his own projects, Alex T Smith has illustrated a number of covers in his Quirky and wryly observant style with plenty of playfulness
Grave Matter, Eva Ibbotson collection, Demelza and the Spirit Detectors along with collaborations such as Foxy Tales plus plenty of his own illustrated works such as Claude & Mr Penguin.
Elisabetta Barbazza
A fantastic designer that really captures childhood wonder in a book cover
iCosmo (illustration by Ben Mantle), The Dragon in the Library & The Monster in the Lake (illustration by Davide Ortu), Princess of Pets series (illustration by Olivia Chin Mueller), Max the Detective Cat (illustration by Nicola Kinnear), No Ballet Shoes in Syria (illustration by Kathrin Honesta & Typography by Anneka Sandher) The Boy who Flew (illustration by Ben Mantle)
Ooh I love the sound of the Nicola Skinner books 😀 Bloom and Storm. I love one word titles and these look so cute ❤
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They are marvellously quirky. Storm is due out this year and is about a ghost with anger issues and bloom is about a girl who unknowingly releases a curse where everyone’s hair turns to plants that are based a bit on their personality.
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Such pretty covers. I’m not familiar with those books but I am going to investigate them for sure.
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UK Middle Grade are absolute champions at covers!
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Such pretty covers. Middle grade does get the best ones. Going to add a couple of these to my Tbr
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How lovely! MG does get amazing covers!
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I love when you do these posts, because I always enjoy seeing all the different art styles. I definitely think I like Manuel Sumberac’s art style the best, but they’re all so lovely!
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Thank you so much 💜 it was lovely to pick out some more amazing designers- it’s so hard though as not everyone credits their illustrators let alone designers!
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The Girl Who Speaks Bear sounds like such a fun read.
My TTT .
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It’s gorgeous, full of myth and heart! I highly recommend it!!
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What a great take on this week’s topic! I loved looking at all the different styles of covers! Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
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Thank you it’s nice to make as much fuss of the other hard work that goes into books! I just wish it were always credited!!
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I love lots of these covers too, excellent choices! 💜
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Thank you, I wasn’t too sure what to do for this post so glad that you like it!! 💜
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Some amazing covers! I definitely think middle grade has some of the best covers!
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There is some amazing talent both being contracted by and also within the art departments of Children’s publishers!
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All of these covers really are gorgeous.
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Thank you, there is serious talent in children’s book publishing!!
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So many gorgeous covers here – Wild Folk is a particular fave I think Sandra Dieckmann’s art is stunning.
I love how they’re all so different but all have the feel of both their creator and the stories they’re illustrating!
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You can certainly see themes and styles shining through which I love! We are certainly lucky of all the talent in children’s publishing!
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I love sooooo many of these covers! I added a bunch to my TBR list. 🙂
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I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!!
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These are all so gorgeous! But I’m especially drawn to Hold Back the Tide. 🙂
My TTT http://abookwanderer.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-covers-that-are-eerily-similar/
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I’m very much looking forward to Hold Back the Tide!!!
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Those are beautiful covers! I enjoy reading middle school books and I will definitely be adding a few of these to my pile. Thank you!
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy them!!
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