Book Cover

boardie

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Mar 21, 2003, 2:50:14 PM3/21/03

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Im not sure if this is already been posted (i couldnt find any threads) or
if everybody knows the cover art for the new book already, but i found this
on amazon...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0747551006.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

sorry if its old news.

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Fish Eye no Miko

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Mar 21, 2003, 3:30:13 PM3/21/03

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"boardie" <boa...@NOSPAMblah2.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Im not sure if this is already been posted (i couldnt find any
> threads)

You mean, like the "Covers don't shed much light on book five, do they ?"
thread that started yesterday?

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Craig McMartin

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Mar 21, 2003, 5:10:46 PM3/21/03

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Fish Eye no Miko wrote in message ...

Lol, i was actually gonna post the same link, but i see somebody beat me to
it. I would assume thats the actual cover for the Bloomsbury version. But
Harry's not in it o_O;; Weird no?

c_man_uk

Markku Uttula

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Mar 21, 2003, 9:37:13 PM3/21/03

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Fish Eye no Miko wrote:
> You mean, like the "Covers don't shed much light on book five, do
> they ?" thread that started yesterday?

Well, the artist was not allowed to read the book beforehand, so what
could we expect...

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Tennant Stuart

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Mar 22, 2003, 7:40:05 AM3/22/03

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In article <b5g2uo$dmd$1...@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>,
"Craig McMartin" <cr...@cmcmartin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Lol, i was actually gonna post the same link, but i see somebody beat me
> to it. I would assume thats the actual cover for the Bloomsbury version.
> But Harry's not in it o_O;; Weird no?

Maybe he's a Phoenix animagus.

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Raymond Chuang

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Mar 22, 2003, 10:43:57 AM3/22/03

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"Markku Uttula" <markku...@disconova.com> wrote in message
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> Well, the artist was not allowed to read the book beforehand, so what
> could we expect...

This may be true of the Bloomsbury editions published in the UK, but not the
case of the Levine/Scholastic edition published in the USA.

The reason is simple: Mary Grandpré (the artist who does the drawings on the
Levine/Scholastic edition) draws not only the color cover artwork, but also
the black-and-white interior artwork that starts each chapter of a Harry
Potter novel. As such, Ms. GrandPré has to have read at least the story
outline (and likely parts of the manuscript) in order to create the
drawings. Given the long lead time to print the final US edition, Ms.
GrandPré has probably completed the interior drawings probably as I type
this.

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Markku Uttula

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Mar 23, 2003, 7:35:52 PM3/23/03

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Raymond Chuang wrote:
>> Well, the artist was not allowed to read the book beforehand, so what
>> could we expect...
>
> This may be true of the Bloomsbury editions published in the UK, but
> not the case of the Levine/Scholastic edition published in the USA.

Actually (sorry for removing your reasoning, but that was irrelevant on
my PoV) we don't really know that. Of course we can ancitipate this
because the former books have been like that (at least as far as I know,
actually I've never seen a US version of the books), but that's IMHO
*not* to say the future books will be like that.

Of course it is very much possible (why change something that people
have grown accustomed to), but we just don't know. Not before the summer
solstice.

Jonathan Buzzard

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Mar 24, 2003, 5:41:21 AM3/24/03

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In article <b5ljrs$a2e$1...@phys-news1.kolumbus.fi>,

"Markku Uttula" <markku...@disconova.com> writes:
> Raymond Chuang wrote:
>>> Well, the artist was not allowed to read the book beforehand, so what
>>> could we expect...
>>
>> This may be true of the Bloomsbury editions published in the UK, but
>> not the case of the Levine/Scholastic edition published in the USA.
>
> Actually (sorry for removing your reasoning, but that was irrelevant on
> my PoV) we don't really know that. Of course we can ancitipate this
> because the former books have been like that (at least as far as I know,
> actually I've never seen a US version of the books), but that's IMHO
> *not* to say the future books will be like that.

Well I suggest you head over to the Leaky Coauldron then. Because
they apparently talked to a representative for Mary GrandPre and
she has apparently finished all the art work and *has* read the entire
book. By saying including the front cover it clearly indicates
that there is aditional art work, almost certainly B&W pictures
at the start of each chapter.

> Of course it is very much possible (why change something that people
> have grown accustomed to), but we just don't know. Not before the summer
> solstice.

Yes we do. Technically someone could have told her what to draw for
the cover and each chapter like the UK artist, but clearly this is
not the case and she has read the whole book and done pictures for
each chapter.

JAB.

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