Humorous and Exotic Book Covers

I'm completing the end-of-the-year inventory process at the high school library where I work as a media specialist, and I have both enjoyed and hated the work. I like cleaning and organizing. It's fun to see what books we have and to get rid of the old ones. It's quite tiring, however, to pull out every book from the shelves and enter the barcode number of each one into the computer.

To make things a little more exciting, I've decided to start "collecting" interesting book covers. Check out these jewels.

Oh, the things I would write in such a letter. I would begin with, "WHY WON'T YOU RETURN MY CALLS?" Copyright date of this book: 1987

When designing a book cover, it's important to remember not to include EVERY element of the book in the cover art. Here we have the fair, and an "urgent" note, and a wolf, and a boy on a boat, and a confused and/or excited girl. It's not fair!

This is the original title for the novel that would later become Love in the Time of Cholera.

I congratulate the cover designer for his ability to accurately depict two complex subjects together in a single work of one-dimensional art. I also like his choice of the color blue for the sneaker color. Simply genius.

I know bulimia is a disease and that it should be taken seriously. I also know it makes people lose dangerous amounts of weight. What I didn't know is that a person with bulimia can shrink to become smaller than her food. It's obviously an insurmountable disease, as is that loaf of bread to that tiny lady.