Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: Book Cover Design

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Sunday, 10 December 2023

MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS: Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition - HEAT FOUR - 2023/24

Welcome once again to Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books 14th 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 (4 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.

Congratulations! HEAT ONE WINNER: Bex Hogan - Bronte Tempestra and the Lightning Steeds - Published by Piccadilly Press (1 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Hannah McCaffery and art directed by Dominica Clements

HEAT TWO WINNER: Rachel Chivers Khoo - The Magician Next Door - Published by Walker Books (7 Mar. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Alice McKinley and cover designer Maia Fjord

HEAT THREE WINNER: Rhian Tracey Hide and Seek: A Bletchley Park Mystery - Published by Piccadilly Press (29 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by David Dean

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 and hardback Book Rainbow Rowell - ALMOST MIDNIGHT/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 for more details on @Enchantedbooks
This poll will end on the 18th of December 2023 at Midnight (UK).

Have fun and share with the world through Twitter, 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: Méabh McDonnell - Into the Witchwood - Published by O'Brien Press Ltd (25 Mar. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by ERIN BROWN - VOTE HERE

BOOK TWO: Piu Dasgupta - Secrets of the Snakestone - Published by Nosy Crow (14 Mar. 2024) Book Cover Illustrated by HELEN CRAWFORD-WHITE - VOTE HERE

BOOK THREE: Nicola Davies - Skrimsli - Book Published by Firefly Press (14 Sept. 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by JACKIE MORRIS - VOTE HERE

BOOK FOUR: Bethany Walker - Olly Brown, GOD of Hamsters - Published by Scholastic (13 April 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by JACK NOEL - VOTE HERE

BOOK FIVE: Justin Somper - New Kid on Deck: Pirate Academy - Published by UCLan Publishing (7 Mar. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by TEO SKAFFA - VOTE HERE

BOOK SIX: Michelle Harrison - Twice Upon A Time - Published by Simon & Schuster Children's UK (11 April 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by NATALIE SMILLIE - VOTE HERE

HAPPY VOTING!

Thursday, 30 November 2023

MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS: Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition - HEAT THREE - 2023/24

Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Book Cover Competition Rules

There will be FIVE (3 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.

HEAT TWO WINNER: Rachel Chivers Khoo - The Magician Next Door - Published by Walker Books (7 Mar. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Alice McKinley and cover designer Maia Fjord

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 and a Hardback book - Sally Nicholls/Julia Sarda - GODFATHER DEATH 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 for more details on @Enchantedbooks
This poll will end on the 7th of December 2023 at Midnight (UK).

Have fun and share with the world through Twitter, 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: Norm Konyu - A Call To Cthulhu - Published by Titan Comics (5 Dec. 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by Norm Konyu - VOTE HERE

BOOK TWO: Nicola Baker - Finding Hope (A Whistledown Farm Adventure)- Book Published by Simon & Schuster Children's UK (29 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Rachel Dean - VOTE HERE

BOOK THREE: Stuart White - Astra FireStar and the Ripples of Time - Published by Penobi Press (30 Nov. 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by Jennifer Jameson - VOTE HERE

BOOK FOUR: Andy Ruffell - Lily Grim and the City of Undone - Published by Hodder Children's Books (11 May 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by Francesca Cabonari - VOTE HERE

BOOK FIVE: Rhian Tracey Hide and Seek: A Bletchley Park Mystery - Published by Piccadilly Press (29 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by David Dean - VOTE HERE

BOOK SIX: Sam Sedgman - The Clockwork Conspiracy - Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books (1 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Tom Clohosy Cole - VOTE HERE

HAPPY VOTING!

Monday, 20 November 2023

MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS: Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition - HEAT TWO - 2023/24

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/Dan Smith's Book - The Wall Between Us/bar of chocolate.

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 for more details on @Enchantedbooks
This poll will end on the 27th of November 2023 at Midnight (UK).

Have fun and share with the world through Twitter, 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: Annet Schaap - GIRLS - Published by Pushkin Children's Book (5 Oct. 2023) - Book Cover Illustration by Annet Schaap - VOTE HERE

BOOK TWO: Rachel Chivers Khoo - The Magician Next Door - Published by Walker Books (7 Mar. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Alice McKinley and cover designer Maia Fjord - VOTE HERE

BOOK THREE: Rachel Greenlaw - Compass and Blade - Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books (29 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Nico Delort - VOTE HERE

BOOK FOUR: Benjamin Dean - The Boy Who Fell From the Sky - Published by Simon & Schuster Children's UK (18 Jan. 2024) Book Cover by Paddy Donnelly - VOTE HERE

BOOK FIVE: Matt Goodfellow - The Final Year - Published by Otter-Barry Books Limited (7 Sept. 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton - VOTE HERE

BOOK SIX: Julian Sedgwick - 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Cafe - Published by Guppy Books (23 Nov. 2023) Book Cover Illustration by Chie Kutsuwada - VOTE HERE

HAPPY VOTING!

Thursday, 9 November 2023

MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS: CHILDREN'S BEST BOOK COVER ILLUSTRATION COMPETITION - HEAT 0NE - 2023/24

Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Book Cover Competition Rules

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

This week's prize is a Signed Hardback Book - Username: Uprising by Joe Sugg and a bar of chocolate.

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 for more details on @Enchantedbooks
This poll will end on THURSDAY 16th of November 2023 at Midnight (UK).

Have fun and share with the world through Twitter, 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: Andy Sagar - Yesterday Crumb and the Tea Witch's Secret - Published by Orion Children's Books (15 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Marine Gosselin/Jen Alliston - VOTE HERE

BOOK TWO: Jon Klassen - THE SKULL - Published by Walker Books (11 July 2023) - Illustrated by Jon Klassen - VOTE HERE

BOOK THREE: Sophie Anderson - The Snow Girl - Published by Usborne Publishing (26 Oct. 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by Melissa Castrillon - VOTE

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BOOK FOUR: James Nicol - The Cloud Thief - Published by Chicken House (14 Mar. 2024) - Book Cover Illustrated by Emily Fox - VOTE HERE

BOOK FIVE: Bex Hogan - Bronte Tempestra and the Lightning Steeds - Published by Piccadilly Press (1 Feb. 2024) - Book Cover Illustration by Hannah McCaffery and art directed by Dominica Clements - VOTE HERE

BOOK SIX: Justin Davies - Haarville - Published by Floris Books (23 Feb. 2023) - Book Cover Illustrated by Francesca Ficorilli/Richard Wainman - VOTE HERE

HAPPY VOTING!

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: Children's Book Cover Competition Final Winner 2022/23

Another exciting children's book cover competition has drawn to a close; this was the fourteenth competition in fifteen years. We would like to thank every voter and supporter, illustrator, author, and publisher who got behind our little competition. We have had a challenging time shouting about this one and making it visible. However, we've had five fabulous rounds where you voted with a good sense of adventure. We're delighted to have showcased 34 brilliant book covers. We could have chosen many more as there is such a wealth of talent and such amazing illustrators around. Unfortunately, they do not always get the credit they really deserve but we hope this platform helps to highlight such creative talent and work. A big thank you to everyone who supported and voted for them through the rounds - you have done them proud.

Last night, the final came to a fantastic conclusion with another excellent winner ... I'm delighted to announce that the winning book cover was illustrated by Becka Moor for the second book by Jo Clarke - Libby and the Highland Heist (The Travelling School Mysteries Book 2) which will be published by Firefly Press on the 19th January 2023.

You can check out more of her brilliant work on her website HERE. We welcome her to the hall of fame featuring all the other past winners across the years (see below). Many congratulations, Becka!

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

Monday, 14 March 2022

DAN WALKER - THE LAST MONSTER - EXCLUSIVE BOOK COVER REVEAL - Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books

Today we are really excited to REVEAL the stunning new book cover for Dan Walker's latest novel. We will be sharing it here and on social media. We are also doing a fantastic giveaway on our Twitter account @Enchantedbooks to win a great prize (see pinned Tweet for more details).

This August, UCLan will be publishing the amazing MG adventure story, The Last Monster, by Dan Walker who is also the author of the Sky Thieves series. Anyway, this is the sequel to last year's book, The Light Hunters, which was also absolutely brilliant. With this new adventure, you can expect another fun and thrilling time - it's sure to be a hit with young readers looking for some much-needed escapism. The book cover has been created by the talented George Ermos who is one of my favourite book illustrators. He's produced so many great book covers - we absolutely LOVE this cover!

Here is the blurb for the book to get you even more excited for the publication.

The Light Hunters have fought Monsters for centuries and Squad Juno are the very best at it. From cities to villages, the young group’s abilities are on show for all to see now that their powers don’t have to be used in secret. Every victory they have prevents a Monster from taking more victims, preventing more loss.

Lux Dowd, Squad Juno’s healer, has had more than enough loss... But a more immediate loss is that of his powers. Lux can’t – or won’t – heal his teammates. Whenever he tries, a terrible energy comes from within and hurts the people around him. Lux can’t afford to lose anymore of those he cares about.

Sent on a mission that could end their war against the Monsters, the Light Hunters soon find themselves making new allies in their quest to unearth an ancient secret that may be able to stop the attacks. Could this really be the last monster they fight?

Monday, 17 January 2022

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!