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

Welcome everybody to the 15th FINAL of Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books' Children's Favourite Book Cover. We have already run five fantastic heats and now have all winners and the three highest runners-up. We are ready for your VOTES once again. This is your chance to choose your favourite book cover illustration to be crowned the ultimate winner. So get your fingers ready as it all starts NOW. Who will win this YEAR and go down in the Hall of Fame? See previous WINNERS. 

This week's great prize is a £10 Book Voucher + TWO Terry Deary - Terrible True Tales books 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 11th of FEB 2025 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 EIGHT winning book covers to vote for: 

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

BOOK TWO: Kevin Moran - The Doomsday - Published by O'Brien Press (3 March 2025) - Book Cover Illustration by Tomislav Tikulin - Cover design by Emma Byrne - VOTE HERE

BOOK THREE: Kate Thompson - Yetis Don't Exist! - Published by Templar Publishing (7 Nov. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Loretta Schauer - VOTE HERE

BOOK FOUR: Antonia Maxwell - Terra Electrica: The Guardians of the North - Published by Neem Tree Press Limited (4 July 2024) - Book Cover by Jet Purdie  - VOTE HERE 

BOOK FIVE: Alexandra Dawe - The Stitchwort Curse - Book Published by - UCLan Publishing (5 Sept. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Olia Muza - VOTE HERE 

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

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

BOOK EIGHT: Sally Doherty - Toby and the Siege of Sky City - Book Published by Soaring Skies Publishing ( 26 Mar. 2025) Cover Illustration by Sarah Jane Docker - VOTE HERE

HAPPY VOTING! 

MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS: Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition - ROUND FIVE - 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 (5 OF 5) 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.

ROUND ONE WINNER: Susan Cahill - The World Between the Rain - Published by Everything with Words (24 Oct. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Holly Ovenden. 

ROUND TWO WINNER: Kevin Moran - The Doomsday - Published by O'Brien Press (3 March 2025) - Book Cover Illustration by Tomislav Tikulin - Cover design by Emma Byrne

ROUND THREE WINNER:  Kate Thompson - Yetis Don't Exist! - Published by Templar Publishing (7 Nov. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Loretta Schauer 

ROUND FOUR WINNER: Antonia Maxwell - Terra Electrica: The Guardians of the North - Published by Neem Tree Press Limited (4 July 2024) - Book Cover by Jet Purdie 

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/Bar of chocolate/Hardback Book. 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 12th of January 2025 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: Judith Eagle - The Great Theatre Rescue - Published by Faber & Faber (13 Feb. 2025) - Book Cover Illustration by Jui Talukder - VOTE HERE 

BOOK TWO: Jasbinder Bilan - Puloma and the Bear - Published by Barrington Stoke (13 Mar. 2025) -  Book Cover Illustrated by Skylar White - VOTE HERE

BOOK THREE: Alexandra Dawe - The Stitchwort Curse - Book Published by - UCLan Publishing (5 Sept. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Olia Muza - VOTE HERE 

BOOK FOUR: Larry Hayes - The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick - Book Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books (2 Jan. 2025) - Book Cover Illustrated by Berat Pekmezci - VOTE HERE

BOOK FIVE: Victoria Williamson -  Skyfleet: March of the Mutabugs - Published by Tiny Tree Books (24 Oct. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by James Brown - VOTE HERE

BOOK SIX: Sally Doherty - Toby and the Siege of Sky City - Book Published by Soaring Skies Publishing ( 26 Mar. 2025) Cover Illustration by Sarah Jane Docker - VOTE HERE

Happy Voting! 

Children's Book Cover Friendly Tussle - THE FINAL WINNER 2021/22 - CHAAYA PRABHAT - Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books

This year we had an amazing book cover competition; one of the best for a long time. Therefore, we would like to thank every voter and supporter, illustrator, author, and publisher who got behind our little competition - the newly named Children's Book Cover Friendly Tussle. We've had five superb rounds of which you voted in your thousands (about six thousand votes in total) for 25 brilliant book covers. These truly reflect the wealth and talent of the many amazing illustrators who, at times, do not always get the credit they really deserve. The final managed to gather great momentum gaining an amazing 2913 votes. In the end, any of the top four book covers could have won due to the high number of votes they each received. So well done to everyone who supported the illustrators - you have done them proud. 

The final came to a fantastic conclusion last night where we found another excellent winner... I'm delighted to announce that the winning book cover that caught the wind to success was by CHAAYA PRABHAT for the debut book by Michael Mann - GHOSTCLOUD. Check out more of her brilliant work on her website HERE. The book was published by Hodder Children's Books (7 October 2021) - well done to Samuel Perrett and the team for producing such a wonderful book. It really does deserve to join the hall of fame with all the past winners across the years. Many congratulations!

2009/10 - Jon Mayhew 'Mortlock' Illustrated by Christian Lorenz Scheurer

2010/11 - Darren Shan 'Birth of a Killer' Illustrated by David Wyatt

2011/12 - Curtis Jobling 'Werewolf: Shadow of the Hawk' Illustrated by Andrew Farley

2012/13 - Thomas Taylor 'Haunters' Illustrated by Steve Wells 

2013/14 - Niel Bushnell 'Timesmith' Illustrated by James Fraser 

2014/15 - M. G. Harris/Gerry Anderson's 'Gemini Force One' Black Horizon Illustrated by Blacksheep

2015/16 -  M. G. Leonard 'Beetle Boy' Illustrated by Julia Sarda 

2016/17 - Roderick Gordon 'Summerhouse Land' - Illustrated by Stanley Donwood

2017/18 - (No Book Cover Wars) 

2018/19 - Vashti Hardy 'Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure' Illustrated by George Ermos 

2019/20 - Joan Haig - Tiger Skin Rug - Illustrated by Annie Glennie

2020/21 - Nizrana Farook - The Boy Who Met a Whale - Illustrated by David Dean

2021/22 -  Michael Mann - Ghostcloud - Illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat