MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS: Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition - ROUND ONE - 2024/25

We welcome YOU once again to Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books 15th Annual Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition! This vibrant event showcases and celebrates the incredible talent and creativity of artists from all around the world. As we continue to foster a love for highlighting the unsung heroes/teams of our favourite book covers.  Join us on this exciting journey and spread the word as we embark on another year of discovering extraordinary artistry that brings enchanting stories to life through the power of illustrations. Get ready to unleash your inner artist and be a part of this remarkable celebration of children's illustration and design! Previous winners HERE!

Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Book Cover Competition Rules 

There will be FIVE weekly heats; each with SIX books to vote for. Although there will be 7 book covers in the final to vote for. All heat winners will make the grand final plus two book covers WITH the highest number of votes from all the previous heats. 

Each week you vote you will be in with a chance to win an exciting prize. 

This week's great prize is a £10 Book Voucher/Hardback book by Cressida Cowell - Which Way Round the Galaxy and a bar of chocolate. Good luck everybody! 

If you are interested all you need to do is:
  • Vote for your favourite book cover using the poll HERE  (or at the bottom of the post)
  • Leave a comment through this post/poll or see pinned Tweet/X or other socials for more details on @Enchantedbooks
  • This poll will end on the 8th of November 2024 at Midnight (UK). 

Have fun and please share with the world through X, Facebook, Threads, and Instagram. Watch the voting develop, and wait to hear whether you've won (once the poll has closed).

Here are the six brilliant book covers to vote for this week: 

BOOK ONE: Philippa Leathley - Inkbound - Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books (30 Jan. 2025) -  Book Cover Illustration by Brie Schmida - VOTE HERE

BOOK TWO: Tom Palmer - Angel of Grasmere - Published by Barrington Stoke (9 May 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Tom Clohosy Cole - VOTE HERE 

BOOK THREE: M. G. Leonard - Hunt for the Golden Scarab - Published by Macmillan Children's Books (30 Jan. 2025) - Book Cover Illustration by Manuel Å umberac - VOTE HERE

BOOK FOUR: Susan Cahill - The World Between the Rain - Published by Everything with Words (24 Oct. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Holly Ovenden - VOTE HERE

BOOK FIVE: Liz Hyder - The Twelve - Published by Pushkin Children's Books (10 Oct. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Tom DE Freston - VOTE HERE

BOOK SIX: Sarah Harrison - School of Doom - Published by Chicken House (13 Mar. 2025) - Book Cover Illustration by Isabelle Follath - VOTE HERE

HAPPY VOTING! 


Comments

Pagecrawler said…
Fantastic covers but its got to be Inkbound for me I really love that cover
Anonymous said…
Inkbound has to be my favourite