‘And I, Jack, The Pumpkin King’
28 October 2016 
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Future week’s themes are listed below. This week’s theme:
28th October – ‘And I, Jack, The Pumpkin King’! – a cover for Halloween
I admit I was a bit stuck on this one for a moment – I’m sure there are plenty of Halloween themed covers out there but they just wouldn’t come to mind! Probably because I had pumpkins on the brain. And then this one occurred to me. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Believe me when I say there are a lot of covers for this book. A. LOT. Below is a tiny selection:
And the winner:
Which is your favourite??
If you fancy joining in with the FFO the themes for the next few weeks are below.
4th November – Nomad is an island – a cover with a wanderer
11th November -Falling off the rails – a cover with train tracks
18th November – The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day – a cover with stormy weather
25th November – As old as the hills?? – A cover with mountains
2nd December – Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements – A cover with fruit
9th December – Soul Meets Soul on Lovers’ Lips – a cover with lips
16 December – Give a Girl the Right Shoes and she can conquor the world – a cover with shoes
23rd December – The first noel… – a cover with angels
30th December – Ho ho ho! To the bottle I go… – a cover with drink
Books and travelling with Lynn 
This is a fabulous selection, Lynn:)). You and Drew have both done fantastically well this week. Me… less so. And I also agree with your favourite – the black and white outline makes it arresting and creepy at the same time without too much cluttering it up. With horror, I often think less is more.
Definitely agree with the ‘less is more’ statement. Funnily enough this week I was going to go with Bradbury – like Drew – and then changed my mind at the last minute (it was a different book though).
Lynn 😀
This was a really good choice for Halloween, until you mentioned it, I had forgotten about this book! So many covers…
This was my second choice – I was originally thinking Bradbury but then this popped into my head (well, actually, I caught a snippet of the film on tv and thought I’d go and check out the covers and they were perfect). I read the book many years ago but wouldn’t mind a reread.
Lynn 😀
The first cover in the third row looks particularly weird: I don’t know if it’s because of the stark coloring – black and pumpkin yellow – but it projects an aura of… danger.
Great choices!
Thanks – there were so many covers for this one – I was quite spoilt for choice.
Lynn 😀
Totally agree with your choice on the cover.😀
Thanks Drew 😀
Great choice for this theme – I have sadly never read the book, but I found the film with Johnny Depp very amusing 🙂 You weren’t kidding about a lot of covers! I agree with your winning cover because its simple but striking.
There were so many covers – but you tend to find that with classics – I could have doubled and tripled my choices
Lynn 😀
Great choice of book and favorite pick. That’s probably my favorite one too. By the way, that yellow one in the third row creeps me out big time!
Yeah, I know what you mean – very creepy!
Lynn 😀
I agree with your choice. I like the silhouette effect there.
Thanks, It’s simple but effective I think.
Lynn 😀