What will yours look like?

July 29, 2009

Create your Own YA Book Cover

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Following recent discussions about differences between Australian and US book covers and Justine Larbalestier’s ‘Ain’t That a Shame’ post …

This activity is a great way to get your students actively involved in critically evaluating the impact and influence of book covers.

We would love to see any covers you, or your students create. If you are not able to host your images on your website send them as email attachments to cmiseval[at]det[dot]wa[dot]edu[dot]au and we will create a gallery and tell 100 Scope Notes where to find them.

Thanks to Travis at 100 Scope Notes for this!

1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or click http://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml

The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.

3 – Go to “FlickrCC” or click http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php

Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains a person is your cover.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. [Note: SumoPaint is a great, free online image editor.] Be sure to crop your image and/or zoom in.

5 – Post it to your site along with this text.

If you create a cover, drop by 100 Scope Notes and let Travis know – He’s going to post a gallery.

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