Do! Judge A Book By Its Cover is a regular feature on Pop! Goes The Reader in which I pay tribute to some of the best and brightest the publishing world has to offer in the way of book cover design. This feature is inspired by Katie’s feature Cover Love on her blog One Page At A Time. The idea is being used with her gracious permission.
Please Note: I’ve done my best to credit the designers and artists responsible for the beautiful covers below, but was unable to find this information for a number of those listed. If you know of an uncredited designer responsible for any of these book covers, please let me know and I would be happy to include proper attribution in this post. Their work is lovely and deserves to be credited.
01. Every Shiny Thing by Cordelia Jensen and Laurie Morrison (Cover design by Siobhán Gallagher)
02. Dead Voices by Katherine Arden (Cover art by Matt Saunders)
03. Cape by Kate Hannigan
04. The Bone Garden by Heather Kassner (Cover art by Matt Saunders)
05. A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry (Cover art by Cindy Darby)
06. Ronan Boyle and The Bridge of Riddles by Thomas Lennon (Cover design by Chad Beckerman, Cover art by John Hendrix)
07. A Kind of Paradise by Amy Rebecca Tan (Cover art by Chloe Bristol)
08. A Slip Of A Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff
09. The Startup Squad by Brian Weisfeld and Nicole C. Kear (Cover art by Maike Plenzke)
10. Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (Cover design by Laura Mock, Cover art by Laura Bernard)
11. The Pumpkin War by Cathleen Young
12. The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge (Cover art by Jamey Christoph)
13. The Boy, The Bird & The Coffin Maker by Matilda Woods
14. Slider by Pete Hautman
15. Babysitting Nightmares: The Twilight Curse by Kat Shepherd
16. Let Me Fix That For You by Janice Erlbaum
17. All The Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker
18. Snared: Lair of the Beast by Adam Jay Epstein
19. The Tornado by Jake Burt (Cover art by Gwen Keraval)
20. The Haunting of Henry Davis by Kathryn Siebel
Now it’s your turn! What are some of your favourite Middle Grade covers? Did I list one of your favourites here or is there one I forgot that just has to be included? Let me know in the comments!
