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The Land of Stories: The Mother Goose Diaries | Chris Colfer

Decided to spend some time working on the #BBRC challenge. I have finished A to Z Picture Books and Beyond Dick and Jane Easy Readers. Have completed most of Middle Grade Meade Easy but need a little help. @LibrarianRyan I know you already posted about books for the “Cover change mid series” prompt but I can‘t seem to find it. Would you please send me a couple of recs? I also need a Recommendation by a 4th to 8th grade young person. Thanks!

LibrarianRyan Check out the #coverchanges tag. It‘s mostly my suggestions 5y

Deblovestoread @LibrarianRyan Thank you!😊 5y

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Undead and Unwed | MaryJanice Davidson

All 15 titles from right to left. Okay I made a mistake with one because it‘s a collection of short stories.

Massive cover change when it changed publishers and went from a paperback to a hard cover. It also changed direction of the character to one I hated. I only read two of the newer style books.

#coverchanges. @Birdsong28

Birdsong28 Oh my god! What a big change! That would definitely annoy me 😠📚📖 5y

limada Wow. I'd say mistake on that cover style change. I would have picked up the first covers; wouldn't have looked twice at the second style. 5y

Gissy I like more the mass market paperback cover. They are cute! 5y

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I Heart New York (I Heart Series, Book 1) | Lindsey Kelk

See how this series changes @LibrarianRyan not just place names as where she 'hearts' but that you see the woman's face and the people are more rounded.

Don't get me wrong I love this author and series but this does annoy me. #coverchanges

LibrarianRyan I see it. 5y

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Monster Blood Tattoo #1: FOUNDLING | David Cornish

When book 1 arrived at my library I had to read it. That cover was just so gripping. Imagine my surprise when the paperback and book 2 came out. The gave book one a subtitle that became the main title and used a different aspect of the artwork inside. Then book 3 appeared with yet a new cover. My guess is to pull in adult fantasy readers who like LoTR, WoT, etc

Book 1 is a chunkster. But 1/3 of that length is the appendix that 👇🏻

LibrarianRyan You need to read as you go along. It helps explain the world building rather than leave holes. I absolutely loved this dark book. It‘s not scary like the original cover suggests, but a grand adventure for true fantasy lovers. YA. #BBRC
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ShananigansReads I love the “final” covers. Would definitely pick it up to read the back. 5y

LibrarianRyan @Bookjunkie57 Well let me tell you about them. Its a hard land, not steampunk, but has a bit of steampunk feel, even though most machines are living things, or have living parts. When people kill monsters they tattoo it on their body. This book follows a orphan boy who takes on a dangerous job as a lamp lighter, and learns way more about real monsters then he ever thought possible. 5y

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wanderinglynn I‘d be much more likely to pick up the 3 set than either the original or the second set. Same for the renaming. To me, the original title, combined with the cover art, seems to fall more in the horror category, which I shy away from. 5y

ShananigansReads @LibrarianRyan funny enough my library has the first and second covers but not the third. 5y

LibrarianRyan @wanderinglynn I was expecting horror when I originally read it. I think the second covers actually go to the series best. It‘s the authors original artwork. (edited) 5y

LibrarianRyan @Bookjunkie57 that was pretty common. Very few libraries seem to have book 3. 5y

wanderinglynn You made me curious, so I‘m going to have to check them out now. 5y

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Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand | Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine wrote the original Disney Fairy book (tagged). It sun off an early chapter book series which was In full color. The original quest for the egg book had samples of the interior pictures on the cover, but the paper back and following two booms had full cover illustrations.

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Sunraven Ooh, the artwork on the new cover is really pretty. Insta-library-requested that just to look at pretty things ... 😉 5y

LibrarianRyan @Sunraven I read the original quest for the egg and quite enjoyed it. I have not read the other two. However I have read every book in the chapter book series. They are all really sweet 5y

Sunraven Looking forward to checking it out! 😁 5y

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Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir

According to her own twitter post, the author asked for this cover change at book three and as the series continues. As an AoC she felt it important that her books represent her in image as well as words. She wanted the diversity in the pages seen on the cover as well.

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Sweetkokoro Is that larger image the original cover? I have seen the red version with the girl numerous times and it just doesn‘t grab me. That other cover though would have pulled me into checking it out. 5y

LibrarianRyan @Sweetkokoro Yes the large cover is the original cover. Book two was similar with a blue cover. Books three (the green one on the bottom right) was the first in the new covers, and the rereleased the other books in that style as well. 5y

Sweetkokoro Dang I wish they kept with the original look. The newer covers just look like so many other YA books on the market so they arent eye catching for me, while the original stood out. (edited) 5y

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LibrarianRyan @Sweetkokoro I agree. But I also see the authors point. The newer covers show the middle eastern or maybe Indian (i can not remember which) ethnicity of the characters. 5y

Sweetkokoro Yah i can see that too, but it still gets lost in the sea of other covers that have a similar style, regardless of what the people look like. Its doesn‘t stand out so people like me, look it over because its boring and been done before, you know. 5y

LibrarianRyan @Sweetkokoro Compleatly agree. With middle grade they are trying to hard to make so many books look similar to TLT that it becomes a see of blandness. 5y

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The Diviners | Libba Bray

This is an obvious post for many YA readers. There are numerous years between books meaning each new edition gets a new cover reimagining.

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Steel Trapp: The Challenge | Ridley Pearson

What a high adventure series without a long commitment? Ridley Pearson bring his adult thriller formula to MG books for this duo. The challenge is book 1

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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library | Chris Grabenstein

Mr. Lemoncello gotta giver change at book 4. The new covers are simpler than the original covers.

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Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark | Ridley Pearson

I read and loved this book by the black cover alone. I never bothered reading the dust jacket, and it did NOT have the subtitle Disney after dark in the second printing of book 1 in hardcover the subtitle was added in black under the original title. No idea why the changed the cover. It was a successful book. And I personally hated the covers of book 2 and three. The covers got changed again at book 4. Originally this was 👇🏻

LibrarianRyan A trilogy but so many people were annoyed at the big baddie that three more books were added. And now there is even a spin off series. If you are a fan of Disney land you have to read these books. . #BBRC
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mom2bugnbee The copy my kids had is completely different! The top half was the eyes of a villain (Maleficent? Ursula?) & the bottom was drawings of the kids. We don't have the book anymore, or I'd post a picture. 5y

LibrarianRyan @mom2bugnbee yep. That is the cover change when they brought out books 4-6. It was just supposed to be a trilogy. 5y

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