Covers from around the world

[flying_ford_anglia]

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Date: 6/23/00 5:18 pm  (ET)

"(The less colorful British cover has a
 black and white of an old car in some clouds.)"

I guess I should feel personally insulted by that mention of "an old car"!

Thanks for posting all those covers.

I agree with you that the US covers (and Mary GrandPre's incidental
artwork) are lovely - apart from Prisoner of Azkaban, which makes Buckbeak
look far too lumpen.

I'm not keen on the UK covers (note - the black and white ones are
the 'adult' issue covers - I find them quite sinister). The CoS cover
shows Harry and Ron as too round-faced, when both are skinny and almost
certainly thin-faced.

I remember posting something ages ago about the Finnish covers, which
feature what could politely be described as caricatures (and otherwise as
something unrepeatable!). The Icelandic Philosopher's Stone is, though,
the pits.

Here are some links to more covers (a page for each book), from the
excellent Unoffical HP site, including Dutch and Spanish ones (check
out the weird Catalan one). I like the Dutch ones, but, again, Buckbeak
looks like something from the Island of Dr Moreau on CoS.

http://www.geocities.com/harrypotterfans/hpbook1covgal.html

http://www.geocities.com/harrypotterfans/hpbook2covgal.html

http://www.geocities.com/harrypotterfans/hpbook3covgal.html

Neil - "the old car"