Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Animals on the Cover

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Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun.

This week is all about covers with something from nature on the cover. I’ve done trees and bodies of water before, so decided to give animals a whirl. (Originally it was going to be flowers, but that was then a prompt for a later week!) The creatures on these covers can be real, mythical, mechanical – anything that looks like a recognisable animal in one way or another. And they’re not all that big or obvious!

Middle Grade:

  1. DRAGON MOUNTAIN, by Katie and Kevin Tsang
  2. THE WIND CHILD, by Gabriela Houston
  3. CROWFALL, by Vashti Hardy
  4. BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS, by Bex Hogan
  5. DEADLY DEEP, by Jennifer Killick
  6. THE ARCTIC RAILWAY ASSASSIN, by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman
  7. TWITCH, by M. G. Leonard
  8. THE SILVER ROAD, by Sinéad O’Hart
  9. NORAH’S ARK, by Victoria Williamson
  10. MR TIGER, BETSY, AND THE BLUE MOON, by Sally Gardner
Book cover for THE WIND CHILD: title in yellow on navy above graphic of girl riding a yellow bear with flowers and vines
Book cover for CROWFALL: title in silver as an orange mechanical serpent rises from waves above a boy in a boat
Book cover for BROTNE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS: title in orange and white on illustration of two children in red in a wintry land
Book cover for DEADLY DEEP: title in blue below a boat on red beset by tentacles
Book cover for THE ARCTIC RAILWAY ASSASSIN: title in silver on blue above an orange and silver train
Book cover for TWITCH: title in blue above a boy running through a wood
Book cover for THE SILVER ROAD: title in white with leaves growing from it above a giant horned elk in a colourful forest
Book cover for NORAH'S ARK: title in white on green with graphic of a birds' nest, leaves, and animals
Book cover for MR TIGER, BETSY AND THE BLUE MOON: title in white, orange and yellow on blue with a drawing of a girl riding a tiger up a ladder to the moon

Young Adult:

  1. VIPER, by Bex Hogan
  2. GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE, by Lex Croucher
  3. STONE, by Finbar Hawkins
  4. REBEL SKIES, by Ann Sei Lin
  5. THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN, by Finn Longman
  6. D.O.G.S., by M. A. Bennett
  7. THE LAST WHALE, by Chris Vick
  8. PRINCESS OF SOULS, by Alexandra Christo
  9. UNRAVELLER, by Frances Hardinge
  10. HER DARK WINGS, by Melinda Salisbury
Book cover for GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE: Title in gold and white on turquoise above to graphic of a girl and boy on horseback looking at a female knight and a man in a doublet
Book cover for STONE: title in white on graphic of a boy and wolves in a circle cut out from dark blue with leaves around
Book cover for REBEL SKIES: title in white on blue with girl on red ship flying towards a grey city
Book cover for THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN: title in white on blue and yellow butterfly on black
Book cover for D.O.G.S.: Yellow cracked surface with black fur-like blocks around red eyes
Book cover for THE LAST WHALE: title white on blue with graphic of whale and boat
Book cover for PRINCESS OF SOULS: title in gold on green smoke with gold snake and diadem
Book cover for UNRAVELLER: title in white on blue with gold spider's web with a spider, a moon, a feather, a hook and some seeds caught in it
Book cover for HER DARK WINGS: title in gold on green image of a gold-mouth and hands holding a pomegranat

Adult:

  1. VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED, by Frances White
  2. HALL OF SMOKE, by H. M. Long
  3. THE COMBAT CODES, by Alexander Darwin
  4. UPON A FROSTED STAR, by M. A. Kuzniar
  5. STARLING HOUSE, by Alix E. Harrow
  6. ESSEX DOGS, by Dan Jones
  7. A MIDWINTER’S TAIL, by Lili Hayward
  8. THE EAGLE AND THE LION, by Adrian Goldsworthy
  9. THE JASAD HEIR, by Sara Hashem
  10. SAVAGE BEASTS, by Rani Selvarajah
Book cover for VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED: title in gold on blue with a fish skeleton with a ship sailing in its fins
Book cover for HALL OF SMOKE: title in white on a blue owl on yellow
Book cover for THE COMBAT CODES: title in white below a grey dragon on black
Book cover for UPON A FROSTED STAR: title in gold on green above a swan
Book cover for STARLING HOUSE: title in white on illustration of starlings fighting and holding keys and flowers
Book cover for ESSEX DOGS: title in gold below white author name on blue and red checkerboard
Book cover for A MIDWINTER'S TAIL: title in yellow on navy surrounded by holly and a grey cat
Book cover for THE EAGLE AND THE LION: title in gold on blue with a gold eagle and lion in the words
Book cover for HE JASAD HEIR: title in black on gold above a black griffin
Book cover for SAVAGE BEASTS: title in white on turquoise with gold flower border and images of flowers and a woman in Mughal clothes

What books with animals on the cover spring to your mind?

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6 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Animals on the Cover”

    1. Oh, it’s fab – I hope you get to pick it up soon! I suspect there is an argument to be made that they are not all actually animals, but I’m not a biologist!

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