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:

Lion “If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off”

This week I’ve again gone for a classic – to be honest, I had two choices for this one that immediately sprang to mind.  The first was The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.  Then I considered an Ilona Andrews book that I have that has a lion in the background.  Then it came to me – in a rush of singing and dancing, broomsticks and flying houses – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum.  It was obvious really.  ‘Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road’ (and, I was singing that in a proper Munchkin voice). (TBH I think I’ve had this book before – I recognise the covers – but, hey ho!)

I’ve gone for mainly lion covers and my favourite is:

Which is your favourite?

Next week – Phone

Future themes:

12/05/2017 – Phone “Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it”

19/05/2017 – Plane “When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ….”

26/05/2017 – Mice “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘it might have been’…”

02/06/2017 – Moon “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”

09/06/2017 – Mummy “It shuffles through the dry, dusty darkness”

16/06/2017 – Guitar “You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar”

23/06/2017 – Cat “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this”

30/06/2017 – Hat “It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself “

07/07/2017 – Gold “All that is gold does not glitter”

14/07/2017 – Boats “The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea, in a beautiful pea green boat…”

21/07/2017 – Planet “Any planet is ‘Earth’ to those who live on it”