Category Archives: Book Covers

Book Cover Art Competition For Kids

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Librarians with Altitude

For the National Year of Reading 2012, the Blue Mountains City Library held a Book Cover Art Competition for kids, with this brief: ‘Re-imagine the cover of your favourite book’. With the entries closing at the end of August, we … Continue reading →

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>How do I look?

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Librarians with Altitude

>How often do you mooch around the library or bookshop, not knowing what you want to read, waiting for the book to just jump off the shelves at you? It’s how I operate sometimes. And a cover – the colour, … Continue reading →

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>High(er) brow?

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Librarians with Altitude

>As a bit of a contrast from the previous post, take a look at the entries for the Designer Bookbinders International Competition (also from The Guardian). Sights for sore eyes. Alain Taral came first in the Designer Bookbinders International Competition … Continue reading →

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