Judging a book by its cover

Designer: Peter Mendelsund
title: Trauma
author: Patrick Mcgrath
publisher: Knopf, 2008
available at Amazon.com

Designer: Jennifer Carrow
title: Against Happiness
author: Eric G. Wilson
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
available at Amazon.com

Designer: gray318
title: The Chess Machine
author: Robert Lohr
publisher: Penguin Press HC, The, 2007
available at Amazon.com

[All images from Fwis: Trauma, Against Happiness, The Chess Machine]

Fwis, the great team that also made the cut+paste pinhole cameras, has a great blog about book covers. Covers are posted and people post their thoughts and opinions about the design. It's also a special feature at Publisher's Weekly. I know that Julia Rothman's fantastic blog, Book By Its Cover, has a great section about children's book covers. Does anyone out there know of any blogs specifically dedicated to children's book cover design?