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2B Chapter 1Text TypeBook covers

Book covers

Books have a front cover … and a back cover.

Let’s look at front covers.

Author: Lynne Martin

Illustrator: Maxim Lo

The title is the name of the book.

Author: Lynne Martin

Illustrator: Maxim Lo

The author writes the book.

Author: Lynne Martin

Illustrator: Maxim Lo

The illustrator draws the pictures for the book.

Let’s compare book covers.

Can you see any differences?

Written by Christine Bruce

Illustrated by Adeline Ko

Written by Christine Bruce

Illustrated by Adeline Ko

The title is at the top again.

Here written byintroduces the author.

Here illustrated by introduces the illustrator.

The author can be introduced with different words:Written byWords byText byStory by

The illustrator can be introduced with different words too:Illustrated byIllustrations byPictures byArtwork by

Can you find the title, the author and the illustrator in these book covers?

Practice

The title?

The author?

The illustrator?

The End

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright photographs:

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