Adult book cover designs for kids' books

[maomao]

this is just so people don't get spotted reading a kids book on the train and secretly mocked by everyone

Buy a Kindle and download the entire works of Roald Dahl from the internet.

 

[Orang Utan]

She wasn't heavily made up. And I don't remember her mother. I only watched it recently too!

It's obviously trying to be eye catching. It's quite a nice photo. It doesn't make me think of CATCF though.

does it have to? As I said, covers often refer to wider issues that are only hinted at by the author or just inferred by the reader/designer/publisher

 

[kittyP]

I don't think it's a reference to Verucca Salt

Well I very much think it is.

 

[Santino]

Are all the adult women wearing pink bows in their hair and feather boas these days?

It's only about 60% to be honest.

 

[kittyP]

Has everyone forgotten Violet Beauregarde?

No

 

[Citizen66]

I think I'd be more embarrassed being seen with that cover than the kiddy's one.

 

[Citizen66]

Has everyone forgotten Violet Beauregarde?

She was accompanied by her father too.

 

[DotCommunist]

if ypou made the font a pretend handwriting one it'd look like a misery porn bio cover

 

[Orang Utan]

Well I very much think it is.

Well it's definitely not solely referring to her. We are to infer other things. The designer knows exactly what they are doing.

 

[maomao]

Well according to Penguin books:

the girl in the cover photograph is not intended to be either Violet Beauregarde or Veruca Salt, the spoilt young girls who feature in Dahl’s tale, but a representation of the “twisted" parent-child relationships depicted throughout the book.

 

[kittyP]

Well it's definitely not solely referring to her. We are to infer other things. The designer knows exactly what they are doing.

A pampered, spoilt girl with a cold hard expression.
That is Verruca Salt.

 

[kittyP]

Well according to Penguin books:

Fair enough then.

 

[Orang Utan]

if ypou made the font a pretend handwriting one it'd look like a misery porn bio cover

Daddy, Don't Put Me In The Closet Again!

It could be rewritten as misery porn, actually Charlie is forced to sleep with his grandparents!

 

[Orang Utan]

Well according to Penguin books:

Yes! I knew it! Maybe the US critics were right in suggesting a reference to JonBenet Ramsay

 

[Orang Utan]

A pampered, spoilt girl with a cold hard expression.
That is Verruca Salt.

And much much more that that!

 

[DotCommunist]

Well according to Penguin books:

so they add that photo implication to suggest the warped parent-child relationships of CATCF?

I dread to think what Georges Marvellous Medicine looks like- an 8 yer old belted up and just about to inject?

 

[Miss Caphat]

I think anyone who sees something sexual in that picture has been oversensitised to the idea that kids dressed up in any way is somehow inappropriate.

And it is clearly intended to be Veruca Salt

it is but it also looks like she's meant to be one of those child pageant stars, I don't think you can blame people for making that association and everything else we associate w/that (such as early sexualization of young girls)

 

[Athos]

I think I'd rather stick with the original cover and be thought of as not very bright (as are most adults who read kids' books) than a nonce - at which undertones this cover hints.

 

[kittyP]

I think I'd rather stick with the original cover and be thought of as not very bright (as are most adults who read kids books)

Bollocks is that true

 

[8115]

Ok. I think one of the problems is the picture in different people's head of books. I see Verruca Salt (if it is indeed meant to be her) as a fat little girl dressed entirely in purple.

I find it very difficult to accept that there is not an intentional or unintentional Lolita reference in that book cover.

Also, for me the definitive Charlie and the Chocolate factory interpretation is the film with Gene Wilder. I'm not sure why you would stray from that LSD tinged interpretation.

 

[DotCommunist]

the harry potter grown up covers were simply a tasteful bock-colours design where as these have tried to be edgy and landed in the wrong

 

[DotCommunist]

Ok. I think one of the problems is the picture in different people's head of books. I see Verruca Salt (if it is indeed meant to be her) as a fat little girl dressed entirely in purple.

I find it very difficult to accept that there is not an intentional or unintentional Lolita reference in that book cover.

Also, for me the definitive Charlie and the Chocolate factory interpretation is the film with Gene Wilder. I'm not sure why you would stray from that LSD tinged interpretation.

the new one with jonny depp added a load of old cobbles about Wonks's dentist father who hated sweets.

 

[Dr_Herbz]

I would be very concerned about anyone who sees anything sexual in this book cover.

 

[Citizen66]

I would be very concerned about anyone who sees anything sexual in this book cover.

I'd be concerned about anyone who got turned on looking at it. It's quite different to point at that the sexualisation of little girls seldom leads anywhere good.

 

[8115]

I would be very concerned about anyone who sees anything sexual in this book cover.

I'd be concerned about someone who didn't. *mildly*

 

[maomao]

I'd be concerned about anyone who got turned on looking at it. It's quite different to point at that the sexualisation of little girls seldom leads anywhere good.

Where's the sexualisation? I'm led to believe that little girls and boys enjoy dressing up, there's no flesh on show and nothing provocative about the pose.

 

[8115]

Just to rewind massively and broaden the topic, the reason why Harry Potter adult covers are ok is because Harry Potter is current, in my view.

 

[8115]

Actually I think what I'm more bothered about, is that there's a Lolita reference there, and there's no hint of that within the book.

End of.

 

[Citizen66]

Where's the sexualisation? I'm led to believe that little girls and boys enjoy dressing up, there's no flesh on show and nothing provocative about the pose.

Come on. Dressing up isn't the same as being dolled up like a professional model at the insistence of what an adult wants.

 

[Citizen66]

Kids also enjoy running around naked. That doesn't therefore mean it's an acceptable thing in all circumstances.