Never Judge a Book by Its Cover

I was just thinking about how people say "Never judge a book by its cover." While I wish this wasn't true, I know that at least I do. I like realistic fiction so I tend to go for new looking books with a person on the cover. My sister likes fantasy, and the books she looks for tend to be hard covers with some sort of drawing or design on the cover. 

            

 Many popular books have different covers. Look at the Harry Potter

 books. 

Depending on which country your in you will get a completely different cover. Why? Is it to give us something to spend money collecting? Or maybe it's just to appeal to different audiences? Prevent one artist from getting to rich? Or maybe it's just to confuse people like me who think it's a completely different book.

 Harry Potter even has different covers in the US of A for kids versus for adults. 

I won't post them here but while I was looking for the image above I found a bunch of book covers for manly men that didn't want to be caught reading Harry Potter. The covers are..

... I'm not quite sure how to describe them. If you want to know more go search them yourself. 

Even for books that only have one cover, a lot of time and thought goes into them. There are 

contests offering thousands of dollars for someone who comes up with a cover. Multiple tries are made before deciding on a final one. To the left are attempts at creating the cover for Scott Westerfeld's book Uglies. The one on the left is the first try and the one on the right is basically what the cover turned out being. (The one on the left ended up being the cover to his book about his books called Bogus to Bubbly)

So now that I've given you lots of my random thoughts on book covers, I want to know yours. Comment and let me know which of these different covers are your favorite? 

Most sincerely, dearly, and happy holidays, Emma

Ps. Did anyone realize that on the book cover for Uglies, not only does it misspell the title (it says The Uglies), it also misspelled the authors name (Scott Westerfield vs. Scott Westerfeld). Luckily these thing where caught in editing and fixed!

The Holidays

Today we have 12 people in the house where we are staying!  Five kids (all under the age of 9) and the rest adults. And there will be more on Christmas day.  Peter and Mai and their 3 children arrived after driving over ten hours through snow.  We had over a foot of snow right last night and at nine am the kids are outside burying themselves in it.  It comes up to their waist and no they do not have jackets on!

The tree is up, it is decorated.

The holiday is here.

Holidays

Just a quick line to say thank you to the Youth Advisory Council for being so great for this first part of the school year!
Secondly, we are putting together a schedule sort of thing for things on Wednesdays such as movies, music and art (we might even do a book discussion group, or reading group) - once a month.
Thirdly, I will not be around over the next couple of (vacation) weeks, so please don't miss me (or expect me there) too much!
Quarterly, remember to use the blog to let each other know how you are doing in Atlanta, New York, Florida etc!

Peace,
Simon

I MISS YOU GUYS!

hey guys.
Sorry i couldnt be there today.
Miss all of you!
Hopefully see some of you tomorrow, and if i dont have a wonderful Holiday!
-Camile

Flume Awards

See below for details of the Flume Awards. If you want to nominate a book title or two this is your last month to do so. These are books for teens that YOU can nominate and therefore pass the word on to others how great you think it is, AND reward the author (who would then, hopefully write even more great books you love). You could nominate "Boy With a Thorn In His Side" for example, or "Glass", "Airman" or "Naked Bunyip Dancing"! Anything within the stipulations on the website below.

Get nominating!
http://www.nashualibrary.org/YALS/Flume.htm

Simon
(Oh! Glass was already nominated!)