Posted in Picture books, tagged covershoot, fun on January 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Anita Silvey’s Book-a-Day Almanac, I now know yesterday was Ask Your Cat Questions Day. I have no felines to interrogate, so I did the next best thing and recreated Jean Craighead George’s How to Talk to Your Cat book cover:
What I used: wooden statue and construction paper
Original cover
Posted in MG books (ages 8-12), YA books, tagged covershoot, fun on November 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Time for another cover recreation…this one was easy: The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner.
What I used: old competition medal, blue clay, plastic bead and string.
Original cover
Let us know if you have ideas for future covershoots. Some books are more feasible than others (ie Everything On a Waffle in all its flying food glory would be difficult), but we will try our best.
Posted in Books-general, Picture books, tagged covershoot, fun, joint post on November 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New project: we’re turning cover art into photographic art, one book at a time. We’ll keep the Photoshop to a minimum because we don’t believe in airbrushing!
First up: Make Way for Ducklings
What we used: nine stuffed/glass/ceramic ducks and a green sleeping bag.
Original cover:
Bonus: our homage to the duckling statues in the Boston Commons (in sepia!)
