[HPforGrownups] Re: Cover Art/UK 'adult' GoF?

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 8272

Jim Flanagan said, re adult covers of HP books:

> Neil --
>
> Germany and France have adult covers too.  See:
> http://www.redmailorder.com/potter/covergallery.htm

Thanks Jim (and Michelle).  I haven't checked out the cover galleries for a
while and there were quite a few I hadn't seen.  I have the French 'special
edition' of "...Philisopher's Stone," which features a mini version of the
original cover in the corner of a more sober background shot: I guess that
does count as an 'adult' version.  The thinking behind the German adult
covers seems to be similar to that applied to the UK ones and I noticed that
there are two Catalan versions as well, one of which has a more adult feel
to it.

I wonder why so many countries use the US artwork?  Some even changed the
title of the first book back to "...Philosopher's Stone," but stuck with the
GrandPre design.  Don't get me wrong: I really like her artwork (except the
PoA cover, ahem), but why not commission something new in each country?

Re the German adult covers I note that they refer to the author as "Joanne K
Rowling," dropping the asexual, boy-friendly "JK" but keeping the false K
(she said  somewhere that she doesn't have a middle name and that the middle
"Kathleen" was made up by the UK publisher).

Happy 2001, one and all!!

Neil
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