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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Challenge Closed: #READ-A-THON Mini-Challenge: Recreate the Cover (9 AM to Noon Eastern)


Choosing among the readings that you're tackling for this readathon, recreate (or improve!) one of the book covers, magazine covers, or ads.

This challenge may involve you posing for a photo in a quickly assembled period costume (completed with a bed sheet toga!), it may involve sketches, finger paint, the careful positioning of stuffed animals, recruiting friends and loved ones to model, or creating an image on a website like fotoflexer.

Get up, move, think artistically and re-create the cover of a book you're reading or plan to read.  Most importantly, have fun.

Post your version of the new and improved cover beside a photo of the book's original cover on your blog or other personal website by noon (EST) and leave a link to your post in the comments to this challenge.

One winner will be chosen to receive an online, ten-dollar, gift card to Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, or another book-providing website of his or her choosing.


Update:  This challenge is now closed!  Thank you to everyone who entered!  It was such a difficult decision among the readers who took the time to create covers, that I wound up using a random number generator to choose the winner.

The ten-dollar giftcard will go to Avid Reader.  You can see the recreated book cover here.

Thank you to everyone who participated!  You created some wonderful book covers!!!!!!
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17 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM

    Here is my submission http://www.picmonkey.com/p/MkiJJFxLAdN
    or go here https://twitter.com/NicoleMac19

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  2. UnknownOctober 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM

    My cat helped with my entry! http://mazzlepop.tumblr.com/post/33492180869

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  3. Madelaine ElliottOctober 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM

    Sorry, that post was me!

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  4. Melissa (Avid Reader)October 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM

    Here's my cover...

    http://avidreader25.blogspot.com/2012/10/dewey-read-thon.html

    Great idea!

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  5. AnonymousOctober 13, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    Dracula, shitty version:
    http://myreadathon.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/progress/

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  6. AnonymousOctober 13, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    Here is mine. http://linguaphileme.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/readathon-hour-2/
    Hope you like it :)

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  7. fakestephOctober 13, 2012 at 9:29 AM

    here is my entry: http://www.thefakesteph.com/2012/10/deweys-24-hour-readatahon.html

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  8. Maria StanislavOctober 13, 2012 at 9:33 AM

    Here's my entry. Meet John Constantine. (Could've fooled me, I swear.)
    http://thecoffeeclef.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/read-a-thon-mini-challenge-one-recreate-cover/

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  9. AnonymousOctober 13, 2012 at 9:43 AM

    Sherlock Holmes and the mini-challenge.

    http://vincentdoesthereadathon.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/1-mini-challenge/

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  10. AnonymousOctober 13, 2012 at 10:10 AM

    http://nulaanne.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/mini-challenge-create-a-cover/ This is my cover of The Historian.

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  11. Just a Lil LostOctober 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM

    Here's my redesign of The Casual Vacancy!
    http://www.justalillost.com/2012/10/12/deweys-24-hour-readathon-2012/#Hr2

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  12. BitsyOctober 13, 2012 at 10:25 AM

    Here's mine: http://www.exlibrisbitsy.com/read-a-thon/read-a-thon-october-2012/#hour2

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  13. SharonOctober 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    What Came from the Stars (and my drawing app). http://t.co/DHz9aZ10

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  14. AnonymousOctober 13, 2012 at 10:45 AM

    I Finished the cover on Case Closed Vol. 2
    It is at http://banandom.blogspot.com/2012/10/readathon.html

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  15. EOctober 13, 2012 at 11:47 AM

    Here's mine!

    http://dilatorybibliophile.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/read-a-thon-mini-challenge-re-create-the-cover/

    Thanks for hosting this challenge!

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  16. FICTION STATE OF MINDOctober 13, 2012 at 11:58 AM

    Mine is based on lost girls by Anne Kelly
    Http://www.fictionstateofmind.blogspot.com

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  17. Melissa (Avid Reader)October 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM

    Thank you so much Shel! I just emailed you, but let me know if you didn't get it.

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