The Friday Face-Off: Riders

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme:  “Live on the saddle. Die on the hog.” – A cover featuring riders.

I went way back for this week’s pick, since I couldn’t come up with any recent reads that fit this category. Hey, Lynn doesn’t specify what the riders are riding, right? (Of course my mind immediately goes to horses) Then I thought of a horse-like animal that would be perfect: the thestrals that Harry and his friends ride in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. And being Harry Potter there are so many covers to choose from, so I’ve decided to only feature covers that show the characters riding thestrals! Take a look at some of these:

Scholastic 2013 edition | Dutch edition 2013

Bloomsbury (English) edition | Swedish edition 2004

Danish edition 2004 | Romanian edition 2017

Japanese edition | Danish edition 2015

I absolutely love the Scholastic 15th anniversary edition, but I also love the Bloomsbury, so my favorite is:

Which one is your favorite?

Posted June 15, 2018 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 34 Comments

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34 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Riders

  1. I love that you chose Order of the Phoenix for this one, the thestrals are so fascinating to me. I think my top pick would the same one you chose, and my second would be the Scholastic 2013 edition. The thestral on the Swedish edition looks a bit angry, haha. Nice choice!
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  2. Those covers are awesome – I’m now very aware of how boring the covers on our books are! This is an excellent book for this week’s theme, Tammy and I completely agree with your choice – it’s a really lovely cover.

  3. Great choice of book, I’m also holding onto the Harry Potter books for some of the future topics which may be tougher, as it just seems there’s a HP cover for every occasion 😀 My favorite is the first one, I just love the panoramic view, but I like yours too!

    • Tammy

      There is so much going on in these covers, I can see why you’d be able to use any HP cover for many of the themes:-)

    • Tammy

      I agree, the colors are moody as well, which I like especially since the story is so grim at times.

  4. Great choice! I almost picked Prisoner of Azkaban because he is riding a griffin, but I went with Eragon and Dragon riding instead. Like you said Lynn didn’t specify what they were riding!

    I think I like the Swedish edition 2004 best! The colors are great and the thestrals is creepy and cool at the same time! My second fav is Scholastic 2013.

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