Rachelle Baker has illustrated the covers of Making Our Way Home by Blair Imani (Ten Speed Press), Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb by Veronica Chambers (Dial Books), which she also illustrated the interior ...

What makes an outstanding book cover? The Book Jacket Designers Guild of the 1940s and ’50s defined the art as the “successful integration of concept with graphic means … and expression of the spirit ...

When Little, Brown released the cover art for J.K. Rowling's forthcoming novel The Casual Vacancy earlier this month, with a snow-white, hand-lettered title draped lazily across a red jacket, it was ...

We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust-jacket (book cover) illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long ...

For Reed, Second Hand isn’t simply a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The unearthing of analog book covers offers an opportunity to give lesser known, but brilliantly executed, designs their due. He ...

15.25 x 14 in. (38.7 x 35.6 cm.) Hector Garrido is an American book cover illustrator. He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the ...

Are the images satire or bigotry? Could they be both? These questions are at the center of the controversy surrounding a book called “Bad Little Children’s Books” — a collection of mock children’s ...

“This cover feels simultaneously classic and entirely new. It’s slightly reminiscent of 1970s science fiction covers (albeit much more restrained), and yet I’ve never seen anything quite like it. That ...

Romance novels thrive on familiarity and the promise of a happily ever after (or a happy for now), and their covers likewise play to readers’ expectations. A mystical object surrounded by vining ...

We've all heard the saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover," but for these classic novels an eye-catching cover is essential to their legacy. Check out some of the most memorable dust jackets. This ...

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Abrams book publisher announced this week it will honor the “Bad Little Children’s Books” author’s request to no longer publish his book, following a social media backlash. “Satire can be ugly,” ...