WHY ARE THEY ALL DIFFERENT?
Why are book covers different?
Why should the publisher use different images?
Wouldn't they want the cover to be consistent?
Doesn't the illustrator who does the illustrations do ALL the artwork?
The answer is that there is NOT one publisher. There are different
publishers around the world. It's as simple as that.
The cover art is not part of the author's design (the author has no
control of the cover design), but is chosen by the publishers, and
often a book is sold with different covers in different countries.
The cover art may even change with editions, and there may be
different covers in the same country. The Harry Potter books are
translated into many languages. When a new translation is done
the cover is usually changed as well, in most cases, using a
local illustrator.
To see the different covers and for information about who designed
them, go to
www.eharry.org/illustrators.htm
There are many images so the page is slow to open
In the UK, the illustrators have been
Thomas Taylor, Cliff Wright and Giles Greenfield
To see illustrations produced by Giles Greenfield, go to
www.theartworksinc.com/artists/greenfield/greenfield.htm
or
www.theartworksinc.com/
click 'Giles Greenfield'
Giles Greenfield has developed a watercolour technique that conveys
emotion superbly. His particular gift is the ability to show both
strength and gentleness with the fluidity of his medium underpinned
by consumate draughtsmanship.
In the USA (and other countries), the illustrator is Mary GrandPr챕
For more information about her go to
www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/illustrator/
www.marygrandpre.com/caarticle.html
To see her work go to
www.marygrandpre.com/
click 'Gallery'
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
In the United Kingdom, the fifth installment of the Harry Potter books,
as has happened previously, has two separate covers, one for adults
and one for children. The adult edition of "Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix" features a sombre black and white picture of a phoenix,
while the children's version of the book is illustrated with a more vibrant
red and orange bird rising from flames. The cover and dustjacket are
different, but the books are identical apart from that. This is not about
satisfiying the sensibilities of adults who do not want to be seen reading
a child's book - this is about increasing sales. The publishers have done
their homework, and found that it does make a difference to some people.
Publishers use all kinds of strategies to make more money - the adult
editions will not only increase sales to older readers, but some collectors
will buy both editions. There are collectors trying to collect every single
Harry Potter cover.
The publisher in England is reported to have explained that the change
was made to the adult jacket because "we wanted to make the image
clearer and decided to go for this bolder image".
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You can see more book covers if you click on at least one of the links below
http://hol.9cy.com/covergallery1.htm
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Book 1: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (also Books 2,3 and 4)
http://hol.9cy.com/covergallery1b.htm
Variations of US cover
USA
China (PRC) China (Taiwan) Norway Croatia Brazil
Thailand Korea South Africa(Afrikaans) Israel
Bulgaria Slovenia Estonia Poland Hungary
Indonesia Turkey Portugal Russia Yugoslavia
Finland Slovakia Latvia Vietnam
www.openflame.com/harrypotter/book_covers.shtml
World Book Covers
Australia Canada Catalan Czech Denmark Finland
Finland France Greece Hebrew Iceland Itlay Japan
Korea Mexico Netherlands Norway Russia Spain
Sweden United Kingdom United Kingdom-Adult
United Kingdom-S.E. United States Germany Germany S.E.
Iran South Africa Israel Portugal
('S.E.' = Special Edition)
www.pottertastic.com/books/covers.html
Book covers are grouped by country for easy reference.
Australia Britain Canada France Germany
Italy Spain United Kingdom United States
http://kids.infoplease.lycos.com/spot/harrygallery.html
Several large images per page - slow to open
British Cover Art: The Originals
British Cover Art: Redesigned for Adults
British Cover Art: Special Editions
Danish Dutch French German Italian
Spanish (Argentina) American
Miscellaneous (includes Japanese - large)
www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2691.html
British: The Original
British: Redesigned for Adults
British: Special Edition
Danish Cover Art
www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2689.html
Dutch, French, German and Italian (larger)
www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2690.html
Argentinean, American, Icelandic and Japanese (larger)
ACTIVITY
www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2692.html
International Cover Art for Harry Potter
Analyse the artwork on the cover of a Harry Potter book
Break students into small groups.
Assign each group a particular book cover to analyse.
Ask each student to write the name of the country from which the
cover art originated at the top of the page.
Instruct each student to silently make and record their own
observations using the following questions:
from
www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2688.html
Analysing a Book Cover
Which characters are on the cover?
Describe how each character looks, using specific
details from the book cover
What else is on the cover?
What is the mood or tone of the cover art ?
What is unique about the cover art?
Is there any aspect of the cover art that is inaccurate?
If so, what is it?
What main idea is the artist trying to convey about
the story through this book cover?
Do you like this book cover? Which one do you like?
Please give specific reasons to support your opinion
Give the students within each group time to share and consolidate
their observations into one list that they will present to the class.
Tell each group to share their observations with the class.
Once all of the observations have been shared, have a class
discussion using the following questions:
Did the book cover reflect anything about the country
from which it came?
Why do you think that might be?
Whose cover was the most accurate?
Whose was the most inaccurate?
Why were the adult covers so different?
If you knew nothing about Harry Potter, what impression
would you get if you could only look at these book covers?
"I prefer the German edition covers. Harry looks
too neat and orderly on the English editions for
my taste. The English edition of the second book
made him look fat, not HP at all"
Design a 'Harry Potter' book cover for Australia
or you can redesign a cover of any existing book
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To read information about designing book covers go to
www.bizstone.com/Essays/bookcoveressay.html
How to Design a Book Cover
by Biz Stone, Genius
Designing book jackets is a fun way to flex creativity, but a dash
of realism needs to be thrown in for good measure. Knowing your
client, listening carefully, and tapping in to your own design sense
will help your fantastic book cover make it to press.
more .....
NOTE: This is PDF document What is PDF document? Click here
http://go.hrw.com/elotM/0030526639/student/ch04/lg1104148_151.pdf
Analysing and designing a book cover ***** EXCELLENT *****
