Tag: reptiles

As a Friday follow-up to Tuesday’s post on wild beasts, here’s a look at reptiles and amphibians on book covers:

The Bluesiana Snake Festival by Aubrey Bart; design by Kimberly Glyder (Counterpoint / April 2010)

The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin / October 2008)

The Unmentionables by Bruce Norris; design by Andrew Brozyna (Northwestern University Press / April 2009)

I Haven’t Been Thinking About You At All Lately by Jacob I. Evans; design & illustration by Shannon Freshwater (2009)

The Worst Years of Your Life by ; design by Catherine Casalino (Simon & Schuster / August 2007)

Alligator by Lisa Moore; design by Bill Douglas (House of Anansi Press / September 2005)

The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Söderberg; design by Ben Wiseman (Crown / May 2014)

Ashland by Gil Adamson; design by David Gee (ECW / April 2011)

Bitter Drink by F. G. Haghenbeck; design by David Drummond (Amazon / July 2012)

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi; design by Helen Yentus (Riverhead / March 2014)

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck; design by Kathryn MacNaughton (Penguin / January 2012)

City of Snakes by Darren Shan; design by Catherine Casalino ( Grand Central / June 2011)

Cold Blood by Richard Kerridge; design by James Paul Jones (Chatto & Windus / May 2014)

Crime by Irvine Welsh; design by Matt Broughton (Vintage / August 2009)

Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov; design by Nathan Burton (Alma Classics / July 2014)

The Devil’s Horn by Michael Segell; design by Henry Sene Yee (Picador / August 2006)

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue; design by Keith Hayes (Little Brown & C0. / April 2014)

The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov; illustration by Pablo Amargo (Vintage / August 2010)

The Hard Light of Day by Rod Moss; design by Sandy Cull / gogoGingko (University of Queensland Press / October 2011)

The Heaven of Animals by James Poissant; design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich (Simon & Schuster / March 2014)

In the Valley of the Kings by Terrence Holt; design by David High (W. W. Norton / September 2009)

Life Ascending by Nick Lane; design by Buchanan-Smith LLC (W. W. Norton / June 2009)

Mad Hope by Heather Birrell; design by Ingrid Paulson (Coach House Books  / April 2012)

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith; design by Mark Ecob (Abacus / June 2003)

No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo; design by Brian Morgan; illustration Jillian Tamaki (Anansi / September 2013)

Paradise Lost by John Milton;  design by Emily Mahon; illustration by Silja Goetz (Modern Library / November 2008)

Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks; design by Jim Tierney (Penguin / June 2014)

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert; design by David Mann (Bloomsbury / February 2014)

The Snake Charmer by Jamie James; design by Paul Buckley (Hyperion / July 2008)

The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones; design by Keith Hayes (Mulholland Books / July 2014)

Swamplandia by Karen Russell; design by Carol Devine Carson (Knopf / February 2011)

Swamplandia by Karen Russell; design by John Gall (Vintage / July 2011)

Swamplandia by Karen Russell; illustration by Stacey Rozich; art direction James Paul Jones (Vintage / March 2012)

Birds and Bugs are next!