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Perfect. Absolutely perfect.

thanks, MR! I had a feeling that you'd appreciate that...

Absolutely love it!

LOL. Thanks I needed that.

Ha ha! I loooove Anthony Bourdain, but shudder to think of him joining the ranks of celebrities-turned-children's book author. I also love the Pupa magazine below! I tried to come up with some other insect periodicals, but only came up with "Martha Stewart Larvae".

This is funny! Thanks.

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There are no words for this glorious creation.

HA! You crack me up!

I'm loving the Pupa/People bit!

Hah! Thanks for doing this.

This is a fabulous example of the genius of the illustrated book. The contest should have included illustrations by you for ALL entries, and THEN the books should have been judged.

Now the only thing I'm hungry for is LIFE!
*snort*

I'm glad you all got a kick out of this one!

HA!

And thank you, Minh, for creating all these covers! You went way beyond the call, and I admire you for it.

I LOVE the innocent expression on H-dawg's face as he tags... it gives him just that same special joy as the crayon did...

haha. love it! Harold & the purple crayon was my favorite children's story back in the day, and is the only appropriate book to sit on the bottom shelf of my bookshelf...

I just realized that Kate's submission was "the Can of Purple Spray Paint", not the "Purple Can of Spray Paint" like I have in the picture... that was not an editorial decision on my part, it was just a goof up! Sorry, Kate, I'll fix it when i get home.

Farida: go team!

Tanita: thanks! I toyed with the idea of a more devious harry, but decided against it... looks like it was the right decision!

Alexandra: i had to really control myself not to give Harold a handlebar moustache or an afro like on our old photoshop wall of shame...

This has been too much fun. Thanks to you both for dreaming this up. I've enjoyed it tremendously! There are so many creative (and twisted) people out there!

Wow, it looks GREAT! I especially like the incorporation of the author on a poster on the wall. I did notice the migration of "purple"--I figured it was meant to match the cadence of the original title more closely. Of course, I was in uptight English teacher mode when I put "purple" just before spray paint! Anyway, thanks to you and Farida for a very fun contest and some fantastic new cover art. The Taking Tree is well done, as well, but I'm particularly partial to the kitten-and-meteor-of-death thing best.

WHY do I keep writing these things at 6:00 in the morning? Please mentally correct my poorly edited comment, deleting "best" and ignoring or fixing the "well" repeat (author pet peeve)!

Congratulations to Kate, Minh, and Farida!

Minh, I finally got organized and wrote a post thanking the Academy, also linking all this to my site and showing off my butterfly herder. (You SURE you don't have time to do a book jacket of Owl Rabies or The Steadfast Tin Soldier: Judgment Day?) Anyway, you should go pro with this stuff!

Kate, i'm glad you caught the poster of Crockett Johnson... did you also catch Harry's old friends, the moose and the porcupine?

and thanks for entering and congrats on winning! I'm glad people had fun!

p.s. if you have any tips on going pro, i'm all ears!

That Elaine. I knew she'd have a good one.

Faboo! Congrats to Elaine. *thunderous applause*

Minh,

Love your illustration of the tartan-eating larva. Writing the "unnecessary titles" that I submitted to the contest was a lot of fun!

I'm looking forward to finding out which title is the first place winner--and to seeing your illustration for it.

Thanks everyone...

and I'm glad you're happy with the illustration, Elaine! It's tough trying to make illustrations that live up to such vivid suggestions!

rofl - that's very funny :D

thanks, Schelle!

The Penguin Classics version amuses me deeply -- and you KNOW the UK version is always a bit more... um... cheeky. As it were.

as it were!

a dorky admission of mine: i've been searching amazon uk to see the british versions of book covers...

i even had to order the british version of The Braindead Megaphone (i've been wanting to read it for a while, but the US cover hurt my soul).

Poor kitty!

rofl... having seen the illustrations, I start to imagine another sequel - along the lines of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - but with Kitty as the star... hmmm... furrball the size of a planet?

PLEASE tell me someone's going to show this to Kevin Henkes! Very, very funny!

Cue first coffee spit take of the week on my computer monitor. My, that one's funny.

Poor Kitty, resting so serenely...

Thanks for the extras, Minh. Keep 'em coming, please! (Like mothers say, good manners can get us a long way!)

Love your goodnight moon by the way. Now when I read it to my children, I'll have to use my noir voice.

Excellent. Perfect title, description, and cover art. Oh, and I'd see the movie.

so, the consensus is... more kittens facing a violent and imminent death?

my word, the kidlitosphere is more morbid that i thought...

Note: I had to change the image... something was wrong with the first image and the meteor came out all pixelated--and it was killing me all day at work... hope that's not cheating!

Thanks so much, Minh! The movie poster is inspired! Love it.

Glad you like the illustration, Hannah... thanks for the submission!

note: it wasn't easy fitting "Kitten’s First Meteor Hurtling on a Terrifying Death Path Toward Earth" into the picture... that sure is a mouthful!

From here on out, you are the star of the show, Minh!

Love your picture, Minh.

This book so reminds me of the adage about sometimes it's not so much what we say in a book, as what we don't say!

Congratulations to all of you unwild people.

nope, you're still runnin' the show Farida! I'm just providing some extra muscle.

And thanks Book Chook--I'm glad you liked the picture!