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How To Make Paper Book Covers

by Paper Source August 9, 2015

Create a new look for school books and your personal library by making book covers from decorative paper or wrapping paper. Stickers or labels can be used as the binding and gives you a place to add a title. Sure to bring back memories of grade school days! Your books will look so smart – you’ll want to cover your entire bookshelf! You will need a few simple things to make paper book covers – scissors, adhesive, ruler, pencil, your favorite wrapping paper and decorative labels

Step-by-Step

• Lay your paper, pretty side face down. Open your book and lay it onto the paper cover side down. With a pencil, mark the edges of your open book onto the paper as guides.
• Cut your paper with an extra 1 1/2″ above the top and bottom guides, and an extra 3″ over the side guides.
• Remove your book. Fold the extra 1 1/2″ strip down at the top and bottom edge, then lay your open book inside cover side down. The top and bottom edge of your book should match up to the top and bottom edge of your paper.
• Centering your book, mark 1/4″ away from the book’s right and left side (this is to allow give so the book can close), fold the extra paper on each side over this mark, and crease. Now, tuck the front and back book covers into the pockets you’ve created in the extra 3″ fold.
• Add labels to the spine of the book for decoration of to add the name of the book.

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How to Make a Book Cover

All you need is a sheet of paper, folding skills, and a little creativity.

It's a big moment when a kid gets their first textbook—not one of those softcover workbooks—but a heavy, hardcover book, dense with whatever subject it covers. The book is toted to and from school, used for studying, and maybe even shared with friends. Because the tomes are so heavily used, schools typically ask kids to protect textbooks with covers. Instead of buying one, consider helping your child make a DIY book cover they can personalize.

A cover made from a cut-open brown-paper bag does the trick well, but heavy construction paper, road maps, wrapping paper, or even scraps of wallpaper also allow kids to design custom covers. For durability that will last for years, consider using vinyl-coated wallpaper or oilcloth. These materials are thick enough to resist wear and tear—plus, smears wipe clean with a damp cloth.

If your child is too young to cover their book themselves, let them choose a style and embellishments while you do most of the work. Once they're old enough to master the basic technique, encourage their creativity by letting them make their own covers.

What You'll Need

Instructions, fold construction paper over the book:.

Begin with a piece of paper big enough to wrap around the closed book, adding at least 2 inches on all sides. Place the book in the center of the paper, and fold the paper against the top and bottom edges of the book to make creases. Remove the book and fold the paper down neatly along these creased lines, keeping folds smooth and even.

Make front cover:

Place the closed book on the folded paper, 2 inches away from the right side. Wrap the long side of the paper around the front cover of the book. Make a crease along the edge of the front cover. (It's important to do this with the book closed, or the cover will be too tight.) Remove the book and fold the paper down neatly along the creased line. Open the front cover slide it into the created sleeve.

Make back cover:

Close the book. Wrap the back side of the paper around the back cover of the book. Make a crease along the edge of the front cover. Remove the book and fold the paper down neatly along the creased line. Open the back cover and slide it into the created sleeve.

How to Decorate a Book Cover

The possibilities are endless when it comes to decorating your child's book cover. Spots and stripes are easy to make with bright stickers, which will help hold a cover in place at the edges. Embellish construction paper with large polka-dot labels from an office-supply store. Washi tape can weave a pleasing plaid around books covered in brown craft paper (plus, tape keeps sleeves from unfolding).

If your child prefers a book cover without any adornments, consider making them an extra pocket instead. Stuck to the front of a book, they can keep a class schedule or important reminders in plain view. Purchase self-adhesive plastic business-card holders and affix them wherever you like on the cover. You can also cover a book with two pieces of heavy construction paper, which gives you a pocket large enough to place tests or homework reminders in.

How to Make a Paper Bag Book Cover

Patricia Thang

Patricia Thang is an educator located in Los Angeles. Though a native Angeleno through and through, her heart also belongs to Tokyo, where much of her family is from. Besides books, she is an enthusiastic devourer of many things, including podcasts, television, and J-pop. She realizes there’s not enough time in the world to consume all of that content, but she’s trying anyway. Other endeavors to which she has dedicated herself include cuddling her dogs until they’re annoyed and taste-testing every vegan ice cream she can find. Twitter: @aintnopthang

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Whether you want an affordable solution to protect your books from everyday wear, an eco-friendly use for those paper grocery bags you’ve collected, or just an easy craft to work on over the weekend, here’s the project for you! Using paper bags to cover your books is a quick, fun way to give them a touch of rustic charm or a simple disguise. It’s even a great method to give school textbooks a temporary, but personal touch so that you’ll never accidentally grab someone else’s. Below, I’ve put together a short, step-by-step guide for how to make a paper bag book cover, as well as some extra ideas at the end for those of you with creative juices to spare.

Materials needed: a book to cover and a paper bag (not pictured: scissors)

How to make a paper bag book cover: the overview 

Here’s the steps for how to make a paper bag book cover, with more info on each step below.

1. Prepare your paper bag.

Depending on the size of the book you want to cover, you can use a paper grocery bag (usually enough paper for two standard hardcovers, maybe a textbook) or a brown paper lunch bag (good for one smaller hardcover). In order to get the most out of one bag as possible, instead of cutting out flat pieces, you should be able to find a glued seam on the back face of the bag that you can gently pull apart. There will also be some glued seams and folds on the bottom of the bag that can be taken apart as well. You will end up with one large, flat piece of brown paper.

Any paper bag should come apart easily into a large, flat piece.

2. Cut paper to size.

Using the book you want to cover as a size guideline, measure (or approximate, precision is not super important here) out a rectangular piece of paper slightly larger than the book itself. There should be about two inches of excess at the top and bottom, and about three inches on each side when the book is opened flat.

Cut out an appropriate piece of paper based on the size of your book.

3. Fold top and bottom edges.

Center the book to be covered on the paper and create creases along the top and bottom edges of the book. Fold the paper down along these creases across the entire length of the paper so that it now matches the book in height, and place the book on top. (Make sure you position the paper so that any grocery store logo faces inward and will be hidden once the jacket is complete.)

Match the height of your paper cover to your book by folding over the top and bottom.

4. Wrap jacket around book evenly.

Gently wrap the paper around your book, ensuring that the book is centered so that there is an even amount of excess paper on each side. Fold the excess paper around the front and back covers to create gentle creases. The jacket should appear complete.

Fold the sides evenly under the book’s front and back covers to create creases.

5. Slide book securely into cover.

Due to the folded edges from Step 3, small flaps should have been created at the top and bottom of your new paper jacket. Tuck your book’s back cover into these flaps and slide the jacket onto the cover until you reach the crease made in Step 4. Repeat with the front cover, and your book should be securely covered with a new brown paper jacket!

Left: Tuck the book’s covers into the top and bottom flaps. Right: Book is securely covered.

Note: Be careful using this method to create a cover for a paperback. It is absolutely possible, but the flimsier book might cause the jacket to slip off fairly easily.

Extra ideas:

And there you have it! No matter if you want to keep your paper bag book cover simple or come up with all kinds of creative ways to make it your own, I hope this guide can serve as a good jumping-off point for all you crafty readers out there. If you have any cool ideas that you’d like to share with other readers, feel free to drop them in the comments!

L-R: Simple brown paper plus ribbon marker, wrapping paper, fabric. Happy crafting!

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How to make a brown paper bag book cover in 10 simple steps.

The school year is just around the corner, and you know what that means: new (to you) books!

(Of course, we here at Redeemed Reader think every day is a day for new-to-you-books, ahem.)

The difference between school books and leisure reading books is significant: one of those books might linger peacefully on a nightstand or lounge around on a bed all day.

The other is destined for indentured servitude: thrown in a locker every day for nine months. Read by multiple siblings in a homeschool setting over the course of several years. Marked up, hauled around, thrown in a backpack, sold and resold, used and re-used. In short, books used for education have a hard life.

They need protection.

They need a book cover (we library people call that a dust jacket).

I used these in grad school if I wanted to be able to resell a “like new” textbook, for my own children when they started school, and antique books for a season if they are going to be used heavily (and then I take off the covers so my bookshelves look pretty again). I used clear ones as a librarian, too, but the process is the same and, bonus, the brown paper ones are free.

**This process can be used with paperback books, but it is far easier with hardback books. Start with your BIGGEST book because you can re-use the bag for a smaller book if you cut the first one too small.***

Step 1: Gather Supplies

• book(s) to cover
• packing tape or duct tape*
• standard grocery store brown paper bags

*masking tape and Scotch tape don’t stick well to brown paper. Clear packing tape is handy, but if your child wants to make a statement (or, if you are a home educator and want to be able to tell at a glance who left their book lying on the dining room table), colored duct tape is awfully fun.

Step 2: Disassemble the Brown Paper Bag

Step 3: Align the Book and Paper

Make sure the grocery bag is design-side up . You don’t want that grocery store label on the outside of your book. (Some of the pictures show my brown paper bag backwards; I had to refold it because I wasn’t paying attention!) Place the book you wish to cover on the brown paper.

I like to line up the right side of the back cover of the book with the vertical fold near the right edge of the big piece of brown paper (see picture). Be sure there’s enough leftover brown paper to make a good flap.

Center the book top to bottom.

Step 4: Fold Top and Bottom Edges

Once the book is lined up where you want it, fold the brown paper bag up over the top edge of the book’s back cover. Make a crease with your fingers on the paper where it curls over the edge of the book. Do the same on the bottom edge. It’s better to have a little extra than to be too short.

Remove the book, and, using the handy creases and seams in the bag to help you fold straight, fold those two edges all the way across the the paper. Line up the creases vertically with one another in a few spots, and you should end up with a straight fold. In the picture, you can see a crease running through the pear shape and just to the left of the “Peach” word. I’ve lined up the creases on my flap with the ones on the main part of the bag.

With the folds in place, put the book back on and double check length. If there’s no extra paper visible at the top or bottom, unfold one section and refold a little more generously. You want a small margin of paper–enough so that when you slip the book’s cover into the flaps later, the paper won’t be too tight. (See picture above for an example of enough margin.)

Step 5: Cut Sides to Measure

With the book lying in place, cut any excess paper off the right hand side. You want to leave enough of a flap so that it will cover about half of the book’s original hard cover when folded over–this is so your book’s actual cover won’t slip out of the protective cover when it’s carelessly tossed aside lying open. Better to cut a little extra width at this point; you can always trim it later.

Fold the left side of the paper over the  closed book and roughly cut the same length on the second side. It doesn’t have to be exact. (The picture shows this process before I’d folded the top/bottom flaps. Steps 4 and 5 can be switched.)

Step 6: Fold Side Flaps

Line the book up top to bottom. Slide it to the same spot on the right from which you did your earlier measuring (again, this is why that pre-made crease is so handy!). Fold the right-hand side over the back cover of the book with the book as closed as possible. You will have to open the book slightly to fold the paper over the cover, but the back of the book should be lying as flat as possible on the table.

CLOSE THE BOOK ALL THE WAY WHEN THE FIRST FLAP IS FOLDED IN.

You can flip the book over again so that you’re folding the remaining flap “up” over the book’s back cover instead of down over the front. It doesn’t matter as long as the book is mostly closed (otherwise, the cover will be too snug). Fold the paper over the book and make a slight crease where the paper bends on the righthand edge of the top cover. Open the cover just enough to fold that flap in. Close the book again and press those creases in place as much as you can.

Step 7: Put the Book Cover On

Open the book (all the way), and slide the book’s actual covers into the flaps on each side. Be sure to slide the book into the slot made when you folded the paper edges over. You want total coverage on those corners. The cover should now stay in place without any tape.

Step 8: Check It Once, Check it Twice

Fold the book closed with the cover in place. Make sure the corners aren’t bending or pulling. Make sure the edges are all protected where they should be. Refold for extra space if you need to.

Now, open the book partway, as if you were reading it. Check to make sure the book’s flaps aren’t sliding out of the book cover’s flaps or almost sliding out. If they are, you will need to start again with a bigger flap! The flaps pictured just above are too small and come off the book’s cover too easily. (You can use the “too small” cover to simply cover a small book. You will need to start over, but you won’t have wasted the brown paper bag.)

Step 9: Tape the Cover

The tape is crucial for longterm book cover success!

Starting with the front of the book, place the tape near to the side edge of the inside flap on the back of the book’s cover (same side–see the picture). Positioning the tape close to the side edge of the inside flap (without taping the book itself) will give more stability and longevity to your book cover.

Hold the paper cover in place so that the sides line up correctly and fold the tape over into the inside of the book’s flap. ***Check to make sure your tape stays only on the paper cover and doesn’t accidentally stick to the actual book cover.***

Tape the bottom of the same side before repeating the process on the back cover.

Step 10: Create New Cover Art

Close the book with the book cover on and admire it. Check the fit. Be sure you like it (better to start over now than later.)

When you’re satisfied with the fit, take some time to create new cover art.  This is crucial . Lest you think this isn’t important, let me remind you: it’s impossible to tell, without opening the book, which side is right side up! It’s also impossible to tell whose book is whose or which book is which. They all look the same now, and you’d be amazed how similarly sized some books are. Owner or student names on the outside are handy, but you can also write them on the inside flap.

It’s also a good idea to label the spine of the book, especially if it’s going to be on a bookcase!

Have you ever made a brown paper bag book cover?

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Home » Planning & Creating » Types of book covers: hardcover versus softcover

The benefits

It’s a popular, versatile, and economical way to print photo books and trade books . If you’re printing a trade book, the softcover option gives you the lowest cost per copy. Softcover books are also lightweight, accessible, and portable, making them perfect for the everyday commuter, long-distance traveler, and bedtime reader. Many authors and publishers choose softcover designs for novels, poetry, memoirs, short stories or essays, travel guides, comics , graphic novels, literary journals, how-to guides, and art and business catalogs. The list goes on!

The limitations

The softcover design is fairly simple—no cover flaps or end sheets*. (If you’re making a magazine, you can print on the inside front and back covers, as well as on the outside front and back covers.) Softcover is also not available for Blurb’s large-format photo books or layflat books. No surprise here: With heavy use, softcover books are more susceptible to visible wear and tear than hardcover.

Hardcover  with ImageWrap

Our ImageWrap hardcover books feature a durable matte finish and library binding, as well as end sheets*. Your cover image will be printed directly on the front and back cover and spine. You also get a choice of end sheet colors, depending on your book format (two color options for trade books, five color options for perfect-bound photo books).

It’s a sturdy, stand-alone book design that looks great on display and stands up to heavy use. For the higher printing cost, you get lasting durability (think: children’s books, cookbooks) and more of a high-end feel (perfect for keepsake albums or photography, art, and design books).

What you see is what you get—as in, no cover flaps. If you’re making a layflat photo book , ImageWrap is the only cover type available. Hardcover books are heftier and can be a bit trickier to transport (unless they’re slim). But being heavy is ok for books that tend to stay at home (reference guides, cookbooks, yearbooks, coffee table books).

*What are end sheets? How can they be used?

End sheets are the pieces of paper glued to the inside of your hardcover book, lining the front and back cover. Text and designs cannot be printed here. If you plan to order more than 100 copies of your book, we offer custom book options which may include printing on the inside of your cover.

Hardcover with dust jacket  

This type of book cover features a full-color, glossy dust jacket with flaps that wrap around your linen hardcover book (slate-grey linen for trade books and a choice of black, oatmeal, or charcoal linen for photo books.) Images and text can be printed on the front, back, and spine of the dust jacket. As with ImageWrap hardcovers, you get a choice of end sheet* colors (two color options for trade books, five color options for perfect-bound photo books).

If you’re going for a luxurious look and feel, dust jacket flaps over classic linen book covers adds instant prestige. Some authors choose this traditional design for novels, essays, or cookbooks, while others may reserve it for high-profile art and photography books, keepsake projects, or limited editions. Publishing houses often release first-edition fiction, nonfiction, and some poetry books in hardcover with dust jackets (followed by a softcover edition six months to a year later).

There is no option to emboss or print on the linen book covers underneath the dust jacket, but your local bindery or print shop might be able to do this for you. The hardcover weight combined with a removable dust jacket can make this design more suited to books that are not subject to constant, rugged use (a dust jacket on a kid’s book is bound to go its separate way).

Then again, books are made to be loved, handled, shared, and treasured, so there are no set rules about which type of book cover to use for any genre or style of project. That’s for you to decide. To each book, its own unique and beautiful cover!

Blurb is a self-publishing platform that makes it easy to create and print your books on demand. For more inspiration, check out these tips for creating a standout book cover . Ready to explore size and cover options? Start your book project today!

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How to Make a Book Cover

As a high-school student, covering my textbooks was always something I looked forward to, (so that I could fill the blank covers with I-heart-Morrissey). With a new school year, it’s the perfect time for a little refresher course on covering books, don’t you think?

HOW TO COVER A BOOK: 4 SECRETS

Let’s start with paper.

There are so many to choose from! You can go old school with a brown paper grocery sack — sturdy and the perfect canvas for all sorts of doodles and creativity. Or you could go with something like blue prints, vintage maps, sheet music, newspapers from foreign lands, or even vintage wall paper.

You may want to use clear, plastic book covers — the professional-grade types used at libraries — to cover books with jackets on them. But for books without jackets, a paper cover is just right.

Once you’ve picked out the paper you like, you’ll want to make sure it’s just the right size. I like to allow about 1-1/2″ on top and bottom and about 3″ on either side to allow for folding.

How to Cover a Book Secret #2:

One thing you’ll want to watch out for, if you are using a paper that has had a crease in it (such as a map or newspaper) you don’t want to put the edge of the cover on a crease in the paper. The edge will wear out much faster and you’ll have holes in the cover right away.

Lay the book on the paper and use something to mark exactly where you will fold the paper. Use a bone folder to score along the edge, or use a pencil or pen to trace where you want to fold.

Start with the top and bottom and fold the paper where you marked it.

Use my bone folder again for a really sharp crease. Now it’s time to fold the edges.

Close the book and center it.

How to Cover a Book Secret #3:

Leave a good 1/4″ on top and bottom. If you don’t, the book won’t fit into the cover.

Fold one edge down and give it a little crease so you know where to fold it.

Open the paper up and use the bone folder to score or mark where you want to fold the paper down. Scoring the paper makes folding so much easier if you are using thick paper.

Now fold the top down. Use the bone folder to give it a good crease.

You can use double-sided tape to help hold the fold in place. It’ s not absolutely necessary, but it gives a nicer, finished look when the cover is in place. Be sure to place the tape towards the center — tape closer to the edge will seal the paper shut and the book won’t fit inside the flap.

Wrap the cover around the book and using the technique above, gently give the sides of the paper on top a little crease so you’ll know where to fold it.

Use the bone folder again, not creasing it as well as the other times. Because the book’s hard cover has thicker edges, you won’t want to crease it quite as well as you did the other times, or it might look a little funny. (Think: double creases on pants.)

Insert the book into the top part of the cover where you folded.

Now close the book and wrap the cover around the book and turn it over to mark where you want to fold on the other side.

Repeat the steps for the other side.

How to Cover a Book Secret #4:

Carefully insert the other side of the cover into the fold. You don’t want to bend the book back too far or you might crack the spine and binding.

You can write the name of the book directly on the cover, or you can attach a pretty label.

Ta-da! It’s that simple. Repeat as necessary for all of your book-covering needs.

And just because I’m curious, did you doodle on your covered textbooks in high school? Did you favor band names or crushes?

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34 thoughts on “How to Make a Book Cover”

Totally!! I used brown paper bags and that’s what we were going to do with my son’s books. I was so surprised to see fabric type book covers at the store with a plastic bag covering it. So much waste when you can recycle paper, and maps! I love that idea! We have so many national geographic maps we could use. Fun! Thank you!

National Geographic maps would be great! I always had a tons of those hanging around my bedroom as a kid. Wish I would have thought to use them all those years ago. :)

When I was in school, we were required to cover all of our textbooks so they would last longer. I just used the school-provided covers, which were glossy paper and covered in advertisements for local businesses, and really ugly. In college, I didn’t bother, because most of my books were paperback anyway (yay political science!). Of course, now that I’m about to start grad school, I think some pretty paper covers would be too nice to pass up! That is, if I have any money left after buying all of the books!

Ugh. I hated those covers. We had the choice of using those or paper bags. Congrats on starting grad school! That’s great!

How fun! Thanks for reminding me how much I loved covering my school text books. I always used brown paper bags and never considered covering any in our personal collection….hmmm…next project?!

Now that I’ve started, I can’t stop myself. The books look so pretty in the different papers on the shelf. I have my eye out for some papers to cover my cookbooks now too.

I KNOW I’d become addicted…so clean, organized and pretty, right!? Have fun!

I loved covering my books. I would use brown paper bags and then cut out pictures from magazines and collage the whole thing. I would cover them with strips of clear packing tape to keep it all in place. Oh memories!

How fun! I don’t think I ever did that. The idea did come to me to use some cute washi tape on plain paper to make some cute designs and patterns. So many options!

I can’t wait until my kids are old enough for book covers. Brown paper bags worked the best….and if I remember correctly, some teachers required brown paper covers.

Brown paper seems to be the sturdiest, doesn’t it? I had teachers that required brown paper too. A lot of fun for doodling with my favorite markers.

You literally read my mind! The other day I was just thinking about how much I enjoyed covering my books when the school year started. I loved picking the “perfect” brown grocery bag and doodling all over them with my new markers. I stuck with patterns mostly that I could continue to add to when I got bored…

How fun! One year I was really into drawing different kinds of flowers that wrapped around the covers. I really kind of miss that!

We used brown paper bags too, though thinking about it–I’d probably try kraft paper now. It is so cheap and would be easy to decorate!

Kraft paper is awesome for so many things, isn’t it? And cheap. :) Even better.

lovely! i always loved covering my books. However, Grammar is spelled incorrectly onthe map covered book. . .whoops!

Oh, dear! Looks like someone needs to go back to school and learn to spell. :) Thanks for catching that.

thanks for sharing the coupon will us :) I’ll be definitely using that. Love the idea of wrapping textbooks. I remember how ugly mine use to be in school. Great tutorial!

The BEST use for a paper bag! I miss that new feeling…having all that room to marker up!!! I probably spent way too much time decorating my books and notebooks than I did on hw!

Oh, this post makes me want to go and cover my son’s textbooks. This is the first year he’s had books he brings home from school on a regular basis (3rd grade), but I don’t think they do book covers at his school. I’ve never seen any of the older kids with them on their books either.

Thanks to reusable bags, I haven’t brought home a paper grocery bag in years, but a roll of kraft paper would work just as well. And it wouldn’t have any pre-existing creases to navigate!

I attended a training session on Monday to learn how to cover books at my daughter’s school! I thought it was pretty funny that covering books required training, but they use contact paper and I actually learned something new! The contact paper works great for protecting all of those little paperback picture books, and since it’s transparent there’s no need for labels. :)

Our first project at secondary school was to make a fabric cover for the Bible we had each been given (to keep forever). The material was gingham (mine was shades of yellow, brown and cream) and we had to embroider a cross on the front cover.

Aww, this brought back fond memories of elementary and middle school, when my dad always helped me cover my new books with brown paper bags–he is a stickler for neat, tight wrapping, whether it’s Christmas presents or textbooks, and he taught me how to do it just this way (although we didn’t have a fancy bone folder–the back of a thumbnail works pretty well instead). Can’t wait to do the same with my kids in a couple years!

Perfect. I actually wish I’d been more creative when I was at school and covering my books.

Ah, thank you! I was just thinking of book covers a few days ago and trying to remember how we made ours. It was usually brown grocery bags, but one year, maybe 1984, one of my more creative older brothers offered to make mine and used neat old maps and things. AND, that year, he said “I’m going to make you the coolest cover, everyone is going to be jealous” etc. WELL, he used his old STAR WARS movie poster! From the original movie, the poster he probably went to the theater and asked for when they were taking it down! I’ve thought of that often and kind of wish we’d kept that poster intact!

Thank you so much for such a charming and clear tutorial! You mentioned that you use library-grade plastic to cover books with dust jackets. We’ve got lots of well-loved books which will much longer if they’re covered, and covering them just happens to be at the top of my “now that the kids are back in school” to do list. Do you have a particular kind or brand of plastic that you would recommend for the purpose?

I am a high school teacher, and I require my students to cover their books. I loved covering my books when I was in school; I was able to decorate them to my heart’s content (usually with doodles and quotes I loved–oh, and of course the name of whichever boy I was “into” at the time). I used to require the students to bring in brown paper bags; however, so many of my students would forget, now I give them each a length of butcher paper. I bought a huge roll three years ago from Sam’s that was the perfect size (height) for my text books when the top and bottom are folded in. It’s white paper, and the students enjoy getting out the markers or colored pencils to personalize them.

I love that simple look of those books! Also, the colour choices you have made, what kind category would the colours be called? ; for example: pastel, neon… Great work!

Gabby, this is such a great tutorial. I hope it’s OK if I link back to it in a back to school round up!

Has anyone ever heard of a Middle School sixth grade teacher telling her students that if they didn’t cover their books within the two day deadline given (two weeks into the school year, when all the stores are sold out of the “stretchy” kind that kids are insisting she wanted them to use) that it would affect their grades? It’s true. This just happened to use yesterday.

My son went haywire when I suggested using paper… he didn’t like my solution that I’d sent a note to school saying we’d have them covered after her Friday deadline (today). He insisted that we try to buy them after I picked him up from school yesterday… Target, Walmart, Staples, the craft store… all sold out. So, I emailed her saying we could not find any…

This was her reply: “Thank you so much for your email. I am certainly shocked that such a minor assignment has caused you and Lucas so much confusion and stress. It was certainly never my intention.

Please allow me to clarify. First of all, as I explained at Back to School Night, homework is worth 10% of Lucas’s reading grade. (I tried to be clear about the fact that I eliminated daily reading logs, but that there would be some minor assignments such as getting papers signed – or getting a book covered – that would count as grades.) Secondly, I want to be sure that you understand what the homework assignment was and why it was given. Students were assigned literature books on Tuesday this week, and I had them write down in their assignment books to get them covered for a homework assignment that night, even though I told them they would have a few days to get this done. The due date to receive full credit (which is only 2 points) is tomorrow, Friday. The reason behind this assignment is two-fold: For one, the books cost nearly $100 each. Yes, it is true, that students should not need to bring them home, but I have seen the way books are treated as they travel from lockers to classrooms, and I thought that by having the covers protected, students would not have any type of bill at the end of the year for a damaged book. The second reason for the assignment is much like the papers I occasionally ask to be signed; it helps sixth graders develop a sense of responsibility.

I would like to reiterate that I reminded students each day this week that they should NOT feel obligated to go out and buy a book sock. I told them a brown paper bag, wrapping paper, anything really, would work. Of course I am aware that many families are busy with work, sports, and family activities during the week. This is why I gave students several days to get their book covered.

Finally, please understand that I have never, ever considered homework to be a “threat.” As a professional educator of over ten years, I cannot help but feel that my character is being negatively questioned. I have nothing but the best of intentions for Lucas, and I hope that he is still eager to experience all that the middle school has to offer. I will be sure to meet with Lucas during resource period tomorrow to make sure that he is okay and to answer any questions he may have for me.”

Does this seem normal to anyone? Turning something as menial as covering a book (or returning a paper with a parent’s signature, too, apparently) into a homework assignment with points/grades associated with the task? Is it me, or is this person overstepping boundaries. We couldn’t find anything in the Parent/Student handbook about this. In fact, I can’t find anything on the Internet about whether or not a student covers their books affecting their grades.

Is this just another scheme for teachers to artificially raise their classes grade score averages to their own benefit?>?

Thanks for another informative blog. Where else may I get that kind of information written in such an ideal way? I’ve a challenge that I’m just now running on, and I’ve been on the glance out for such info.

Thanks this was absolutely helpful. I am so glad I can how cover my old recipe books my sweet mother-in-law handed me down. I like how clear you are with the pictures and instructions.

Love this, thanks for providing such a great little tutorial. I’ve now covered a paperback book that my daughter will be studying and it turned out way better than I’d ever imagined. We always used clear contact when I was growing up, but I prefer the paper option since it’s more environmentally friendly.

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Paper Book Covers!

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Paper Book Covers

Hello Graphics Fairy friends! I’m Diana from Dreams Factory and I’m happy to be here again to share another DIY project with you! Today I have a lovely tutorial for you, I will show you how to quickly make some Old School Kraft Paper Book Covers with a chic Frenchified floral twist! If you already know how to make these from the good old days, you can use the tutorial as a reminder, but if you don’t you will be amazed how easy this technique actually is! You can keep the kraft paper covers simple or you can further decorate them as you want, there are endless possibilities to get creative with these!

We will be using a gorgeous black and white cherry blossom image to decorate the covers and a French ephemera image with a vintage frame. All these images are included in the printable that I created for this project so you can easily make these beauties in no time!

Let’s talk about the kraft paper that you need for this project first! I used a kraft paper pad from Clairefontaine to make the covers, but also to print the images – this will give a more cohesive look to your finished covers. If you find this exact type of paper, you can use it, but if not, you can use any other type of kraft paper pads or sheets that you have around, as long as they can be used for printing too. If you only have regular kraft paper that is used for wrapping, you can make the covers using it and then use another type of paper for printing. The colors may not be exactly the same, but I’m sure the final result will still look great!

Here is the printable with the lovely cherry blossom images and the French ephemera labels that I created for you! You can see that I included several different images in several different sizes so depending on the size of your book, you can pick them accordingly. And just to give you a few more options, I included 2 versions – a black-and-white version with no background and one with a kraft-looking background. You can use this simple no background version to print it directly on kraft paper.

Free Printables:

—-> Click HERE to Download the Full Size Printable PDF  <—-

You can use this one with the kraft-looking background to print on regular paper to get a similar kraft-paper effect.

Paper Book Covers Supply List:

• kraft paper pad – similar to mine: kraft paper pad 1    |    kraft paper pad 2     | kraft paper sheets
• home printer
• glue stick or any other craft glue

Step by Step Tutorial:

You can use any type of books that you want for this project – old or new books, notebooks, journals, planners, the sky is the limit! If you are using precut kraft paper sheets, as I did, just keep in mind that you’ll need to make sure your book is smaller than your paper and you have a little bit of extra space around it. This will somehow limit you to covering smaller books, if you want to cover something larger, you’ll need to cut the paper yourself according to that size. Ideally, you will need to have around 1-2 inches (2.5-5 cm) of extra paper on the top and bottom and around 2-3 inches (5-7 cm) on the left/right side, but you can make this work even with smaller sizes. Lay your kraft paper sheet on your table and place your book on top, in the middle.

Hold the book on the paper with one hand, then use your fingers to make a horizontal crease along the top and then on the bottom edges.

Remove the book from the paper, your paper should look like this.

Use the creases as guidance to fold the kraft paper on top and bottom. You can use a ruler if you want, but we are not looking for perfection here, so your fingers will work! Just make these two horizontal folds as straight as you can.

Place the book on top of the two top/bottom folded creases.

Close the kraft paper covers and make sure to book is placed in the middle, then use the book inside as guidance to create a vertical crease on the front cover edge with your fingers.

Open the paper cover and use the vertical crease to fold the top cover – the left side of our paper cover as it is placed on the table.

Open the book and tuck the front cover into the folded paper pocket on the left. The book should slide in quite easily.

Close the book again and place it on your table, then use your fingers to create a vertical crease on the back side of our paper cover, using the book inside as guidance.

Open the book and fold the vertically creased paper, then simply tuck the back cover of your book inside.

Our first book cover is now finished!

Let’s make a few more using the same technique!

Now we can move on to decorating the covers using the adorable printable that I created for you! As I mentioned before, I used the printable with no background and the same cut-to-size kraft paper from the pad, I just love that it can be used for printing too!

Use your scissors to cut all the elements. You can choose to leave a small fussy cut border around the flowers if you want or you can completely remove the extra paper if you prefer it that way.

Choose your flower and your preferred French ephemera label and position them on your book so you can see how they look together. When you are happy with their position, use paper glue to adhere them to your covers.

You can use the other elements to decorate the other books or keep them for other projects, but here is a cool trick that you can try if you want to give the flowers a little bit of a 3D look. Pick the same flower image size as the one you glued on your cover and use your scissors to cut off a few individual flowers – I cut three and this time I tried to remove the extra paper around the edges to reveal more of their lovely shape. Use the end of a brush to press the middle of each individually cut paper flower while holding it in your hand to give it a little bit of dimension.

Use some glue to adhere the middle part of each flower on top of our design, making sure the flowers are placed in the exact position as the design underneath.

You can choose to decorate the other kraft paper covers using the same images if you want or you can use other images to decorate them your way! I decided to keep things simple because I loved the black-and-white look of my cover, but of course, you can use your favorite mediums to further decorate the paper if you want. You can try using distress ink, watercolors, pastels, or even your favorite stamps to decorate the front cover, the spine or the image on top, just use your favorites. You can even use your gel plate to decorate the paper prior to or after creating the covers, just treat the kraft paper as a blank canvas and personalize everything according to your style!

The final results are absolutely gorgeous, don’t you think? Who knew kraft paper covers could look this good?!

As you can see, I also added a small cutout branch on the left side of the flower image, I thought that side was a little bit off-balance and needed a little bit of extra care.

This old-school technique is pretty forgiving, you will see that the covers will not turn out perfect, but they will be absolutely gorgeous nonetheless! You will need to be a little bit careful while handling the open books since we haven’t used any glue to secure the covers, but you will quickly get used to them.

This technique was initially used to protect the book covers from being damaged, but I love that we were able to also give it an aesthetic role, besides its initial functional one. You can have fun using this easy wrapping technique to create gorgeous kraft paper covers for all sorts of books, notebooks, journals, planners or anything else that you can think of, no matter their size! You can create stacks of these beauties and use them as decorative items in your home, or you can quickly decorate your junk journal covers, the sky is the limit! Not to mention these would make the perfect last-minute handmade gift for special friends’ birthdays, they are so easy to make and can be ready in no time!

Happy crafting, Diana /  Dreams Factory

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Dianne Lynn Worley says

February 27, 2024 at 10:58 pm

Love this. I’ll make this project as it is the first time. After learning the technique, I will probably print the background flowers twice, using foam block glue stuff (don’t know the name of these versatile dollar store dynamos), and have three layers. I might even use a fabric as the background, in future, as I have bought printable fabric that irons on to different surfaces. Lovely project and so easily translated into other types of projects. (Great name, too!) Thanks, Graphics Fairy. Your site is fantastic.

Karen Watson says

March 6, 2024 at 8:18 am

Hi Diane, Sorry for the late response, we just moved to a new house and I haven’t been online as much while trying to get settled in. I love all your ideas for this project!

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20 Iconic New Yorker Covers

From the last 93 years.

The cultural capital of the  New Yorker  cover has waxed and waned over the years, but there’s no denying that many iconic images of New York (and for New Yorkers) have originated there—as well as quite a bit of beauty, as well as some ugliness. Predictably, some of the most iconic New Yorker  covers are the ones that address tragedy, or illustrated some kind of upheaval—political, environmental, social—that affected New Yorkers and other Earthlings on a large scale. Others are simply unforgettable as images. Here are 20 of the most memorable. (NB: I’m consciously not including any Trump covers. It’s too soon—and we see his face enough on the internet.)

Artist Jack Hunter originally submitted this design for Françoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman’s Blown Covers project. “The theme this week was “The Gays”, reflecting Obama’s recent statements about his evolving views regarding Gay Marriage,” Hunter wrote after being selected as the weekly winner. “While I’m certainly not the first person to speculate about Bert & Ernie’s more personal and private relationship, I thought they were well suited to represent how a lot of gay couples must have felt hearing Obama’s comments . . . after all, they’ve been together for almost 50 years . . . as “just friends” or otherwise.”

In a review of a recent exhibition of Steinberg’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chris Ware wrote:

Historically speaking, “View of the World from 9th Avenue” was a cartoon nuclear reaction, smashing together what New York thought of itself with what the world thought of New York, all on the cover of The New Yorker itself. It spawned countless city-centered rip-offs that spiraled their particle trails through 1970s dens across the nation, including mine. To this day it remains the magazine’s most famous cover not featuring its unofficial mascot, Eustace Tilley. Yet the thieving of Steinberg’s easily thieved premise rankled him for the rest of his life, the most visible sign of his success legitimizing yet also blurring the importance of his contributions to cartooning, to say nothing of twentieth-century art.

This cover has been parodied countless times—Steinberg famously said that he “could have retired on this painting”-had he gotten royalties.

Speaking of iconic maps of New York City on New Yorker covers—who could forget New Yorkistan? Here’s the story of the cover’s creation, as Rick Meyerowitz tells it :

By early November 2001 the people of New York had settled into a deep funk, and the war against the Taliban had begun in Afghanistan. While they were being bombed by us, we were, in turn, bombarded in the news with strange names: Pukhtuns and Pashtuns; Tajiks and Turkomen; Uzbeks and Baluchis; Khandihar: Khunduz; Jalalabad; Veryverybad…

Maira Kalman and I were driving through the Bronx on our way upstate. I was complaining about the tribalization of the Democratic Party which was split into warring ethnic factions and careening toward a mayoral election it was sure to lose.

“Damn Democrats!” I sputtered. “And those Afghanis think they’re tribal? Since when did New Yorkers take a back seat to anyone? We’re the most tribal group on earth! They may have Pashtuns, but we have Sharptuns, Poptuhns and Fraidykhatz!”

“So are you saying we’re in Bronxistan?” Maira asked.

“Yes, but a small section of Bronxistan called Ferreristan.” (At the time, Freddy Ferrer was warring with Mark Green, the Democrat’s candidate.)

By the time we reached our destination, we had written down 40 names. By the next day we had close to 100. By Monday afternoon our sketch of New York City renamed New Yorkistan, was on its way up to the New Yorker .

The editors loved it and commissioned it for the back page. The reception to our finished art (you can see the original art here) was so enthusiastic they made it the cover of the December 10, 2001 issue.

The response to New Yorkistan was overwhelming. The magazine disappeared from newsstands in two days, becoming the best selling issue of the New Yorker in history.

You can also see some early sketches of the cover here .

Françoise Mouly reflected on this image in 2011: “Ten years ago, my husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, our daughter, and I stood four blocks away from the second tower as we watched it collapse in excruciatingly slow motion. Later, back in my office, I felt that images were suddenly powerless to help us understand what had happened. The only appropriate solution seemed to be to publish no cover image at all-an all-black cover. Then Art suggested adding the outlines of the two towers, black on black. So from no cover came a perfect image, which conveyed something about the unbearable loss of life, the sudden absence in our skyline, the abrupt tear in the fabric of reality.”

“We all remember the campaign of 2008,” Blitt told NPR last fall.

When Obama was running for president, there was a lot of stuff being said about him and Michelle. It was whispered and insinuated … that he was a terrorist, that Michelle was some kind of Black Panther or something. There [were] rumors of a video of her saying, “Kill whitey.”

I mean, I just scribbled in a sketchbook all of it in one picture, and I threw in a burning American flag and a portrait of Osama bin Laden on the wall of the Oval Office. … I had Michelle dressed as, you know, she had a gun on her back and she was sort of like a, I don’t know, a fictional Black Panther. It was a ridiculous picture and I hoped it would be seen as such. I thought it was obviously satire, but not everyone felt that way. I mean, the picture still makes me laugh. I don’t regret it.

Not everyone felt that way—indeed, this cover faced a lot of pushback, and both the Obama and McCain campaigns called it “tasteless and offensive.” Of the controversy, Blitt said:

One of the main criticisms of it was that people would say, “Oh, I get it, but what are those other people going to think?” which, you know, seems kind of condescending to me. Barack Obama was interviewed about it and was disgusted, and so was John McCain. You know, Rush Limbaugh.

Couple of days in, Jon Stewart on The Daily Show talked about it, about how ridiculous the reaction was. And it seemed to turn to love after that. I think people took a breath and realized this wasn’t going to cost anybody the election and it was just a cartoon.

“I wanted to comment on the tragic rift that we’re witnessing,” Staake told the New Yorker about his Ferguson cover. “I lived in St. Louis for seventeen years before moving to Massachusetts, so watching the news right now breaks my heart. At first glance, one might see a representation of the Gateway Arch as split and divided, but my hope is that the events in Ferguson will provide a bridge and an opportunity for the city, and also for the country, to learn and come together.”

The low road indeed—but I find this artwork interesting to contemplate in 2018, with the current president. No one cares about his sexual exploits at all. They’re too busy being shocked by what he says.

According to Staake , this cover came together in record time:

Françoise [Mouly] called me up saying, “Do you have any ideas for Obama’s victory?” I hadn’t even bothered thinking about it because I thought they would have had something in the can for a while. I said, “Let me think about it.” So in an hour I went ahead and probably came up with about 10, 12 different ideas, all sketches, all different. One of the advantages I have is I can come at an issue from 12 different directions. That’s part of the process for me to flesh out what’s going to work and what isn’t. I kept submitting these. And I was getting closer and closer. Then I started thinking about iconography and that’s when I thought that there’s no other piece of architecture in Washington that’s more representative of black struggle than the Lincoln Memorial. So by having that ubiquitous O in the New Yorker ‘s logo as the moon-that was at a time when we had a full moon every single night. There was just this incredible moon. I’d come out of my studio and look at it every night. So the moon above, the Lincoln Memorial representing the Emancipation Proclamation, and then the reflection of the columns on the water representing the bars of slavery. So it just all came full circle. When I came up with the sketch, she called me back five minutes later and said, “OK, that’s the cover. You’ve got to 9 in the morning to get it to us.”

It’s a beauty.

Very  Beaux-Arts .

Art Spiegelman has created many of the New Yorker ‘s covers over the years-and many of its best ones , as well. This highly controversial piece showed a Hasidic man and a black woman kissing as a commentary on ongoing tensions between the two groups in Crown Heights. About the cover, Spiegelman said :

It didn’t come as a shock to me that this got people to sit up and take notice. I’m interested in visual signs; and that’s certainly an aspect of the New Yorker cover . . . The signs are highly recognizable. The sign for Hasid is clear and unavoidable, without the usual anti-Semitic physiognomy that goes with it. The sign for African-American woman is equally unavoidable, without entering into Aunt Jemima stereotypes or anything of the kind. Then there’s this other sign that has to do with the Valentine’s Card-the kiss, the field of red with the lacy decoration around it, all of it weaving together separate meanings. The irony is you have these two groups that are at each other’s throats at each other’s lips instead. That’s supposed to conjure up carnality and yet Valentines Day, the image of Valentines Day, isn’t about carnality but a kind of benign romantic love. All those things course through this image and the impossibility of it is what’s so entertaining for me.

What got people most upset that week was not other magazines with the usual S/M imagery-chains and whips, leather and hurt-but something quite benign on the surface, playing with signs. Reverend Dougherty, a representative of the black community in Crown Heights, was very upset I used a black woman: one more time, he said, a white man was oppressing a black woman. Why didn’t I have a black man and a Hasidic woman, he asked on the radio. Maybe he’s a good reverend, I don’t know, but he’s a rotten art director. A Hasidic man is a lot easier to recognize than a woman with a handkerchief on her head. In terms of visual signs you’ve got one thing that works and one thing that doesn’t. Even more important, I answered him, if I had used a black man and Hasidic woman, you’d be complaining I was once again showing the black man as a rapist and defiler of white woman. This shows me the problem has nothing to do with the signs being shown but the reverberation of those signs in people’s heads.

The same thing happened in op-ed articles. There was an op-ed in The New York Times in which a woman who was very upset about the New Yorker cover writes about the Jew’s lascivious lips. Another person, equally upset in the Washington Post , described the Jew’s prim lips. Now you know I can’t draw lips that are simultaneously lascivious and prim, I’m limited. . . I just drew lips.

This cover was published smack in the middle of the construction of the Empire State Building—which was at the time of its completion the tallest building in the world, and the first to boast over 100 floors. It remained the tallest until the World Trade Center was built in 1972, but has at the time of this writing dropped to 39th.

Adrian Tomine has, like most of the other artists on this list, created many wonderful covers for the New Yorker , but these are two of the most iconic. The detail of the matching books, Tomine said , “was a last-minute addition that came about from conversations with Françoise. I had that basic image but the books were blank, and she had the idea of making it so that they’re reading the same book.”

This is another of Tomine’s bookish New Yorker covers that made the rounds. As Françoise Mouly has pointed out , his works “often hinge on the electricity generated by people looking at each other.”

Bob Staake’s M.C. Escher-inspired New Yorker cover wasn’t their only one to represent the Deepwater Horizon disaster—but it was the most talked about. According to Samantha Henig at the magazine:

Staake modified the original Escher to include wildlife typical of the Gulf: a turtle at the bottom and a pelican at the top. To simulate a woodcut, he cut the animals out of white paper, laid them on a black background, scanned them, inverted the silhouette, then used Photoshop to draw light lines on top—a process that he says helped him get inside Escher’s head.

The biggest challenge was perfecting the colors of the polluted water and soiled creatures. “Color usually means joy,” Mouly says. “But here we didn’t want the image to be joyful.” She and Staake took about seven or eight drafts to perfect the gradation from the nearly-black bird in a blue sky to the murky waters below.

“It’s really the ugliest color scheme you could ever imagine,” Staake says. “As an artist, it’s completely the opposite of what I’d want to do, but you have to remain faithful to your concept and your idea.”

Roz Chast is a wonder. You can now buy this cover in puzzle form .

“It’s very tricky to do any drawing of a tragedy,” Niemann told the New Yorker . “A drawing often comes across as lighthearted, and there’s obviously nothing lighthearted about this thing.” So he hesitated before taking on this assignment: making a cover in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The original cover had a white background, but Françoise Mouly had a “reservation about how beautiful it was”—so it was transformed from “Spring Doom” to “Dark Spring.”

“The city is so massive,” Drooker said in one interview , “that I always approach it in relation the human figure. To convey the city’s monumental scale, it’s best to contrast it with small, flesh-and-blood characters. I employ this device often in my cover paintings for the New Yorker magazine.”

“In the history of New Yorker covers,” Liesl Schillinger wrote , “there is perhaps no cartoon as coolly unsentimental as the Mother’s Day cover Will Cotton drew for the May 11, 1935, issue.”

In the illustration, a plucked-and-dyed society matron turns reluctantly from her cocktail, cigarette, and card game to cast a withering glance on a lavish bouquet of flowers, which a butler holds out for her inspection. The card attached to the flowers reads “Mother.” She looks as though she’d prefer an ace of diamonds.

In those days, New Yorker artists preferred to devote May covers to traditional rites of spring—maypoles, ladies trying on hats, men refurbishing their yachts, and swells waving from cruise ships. After the Cotton cover, Mother’s Day all but disappeared as an explicit holiday theme until 1990.

I’ve always loved this one.

To be fair, this one is a little to recent to be truly iconic, but it’s one of the few contemporary covers that has stuck in my head since I first saw it—it’s gorgeous, for one thing, but it’s the eyes that do it. “I grew up close to the shore, and I have always loved spending time at the beach,” Kadir Nelson said of the cover. “When I was young it meant time with my dad, and now that I’m a father myself I relish the long summer days spent with my own children.”

Of course, the most iconic New Yorker cover may be the very first one-not least because the magazine does a tribute to it almost every year-created by the magazine’s first art editor, Rea Irvin, who also designed the now-classic headline font. As Louis Menard mused :

The picture is a joke, of course: which is more ephemeral, the dandy or the butterfly? But the picture also seems to be saying something about the magazine itself, and the question is: What? Is the man with the monocle being offered as an image of the New Yorker reader, a cultivated observer of life’s small beauties, or is he being ridiculed as a foppish anachronism? Is it a picture of bemused sophistication or of starchy superciliousness? Did readers identify with the cover, or did they laugh at it?

The character was named Eustace Tilley and originally appeared “in a series of humor pieces, by Corey Ford, that ran in the magazine during its first year, and that pretended to provide an inside look at the making of The New Yorker in a style that spoofed corporate promotional writing. Ford’s stories were accompanied by illustrations in which Eustace Tilley turns up, like Waldo, in various scenes-for instance, supervising the felling of “specially grown trees to make paper for The New Yorker .””

Since then, Tilley has worn quite a number of hats and faces-typically representative in some way of “the times”-and this year, for the first time, he has been reincarnated as a black woman . “I wanted to capture the poise and the pose of the original Eustace Tilley dandy, but do it as something extremely simple and modern,” said artist Malika Favre. “Like the original Tilley, I had her look slightly up, which shows her curiosity-and of course it was delightful to have the flight of fancy, the poetic touch, of the butterfly.”

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Frequent readers know that books can sustain a lot of wear and tear with regular use. School-age children can quickly wear out their favorite chapter books or workbooks, and adult readers can unwittingly stain or rip book covers while they're on the go. If you're hoping to protect your new book – or your child's – from the perils of frequent reading, cover it with clear contact paper for a protective, easy, and non-permanent solution. [1] X Research source In about five minutes, you can trim, fold, and press contact paper to make a subtle but protective cover.

Measuring and Cutting the Paper

• If your backing paper is printed with a grid, you can use it to measure the width of your border, and to guide you in drawing straight lines.
• Though it’s more difficult than using grid-backed contact paper, you can use a ruler to measure out the width of your border if your backing is blank. Trace along the edge of the ruler as you draw your rectangle to ensure that your lines are straight, and take care to make sure the edges of your rectangle are parallel to the edges of your book.
• These cuts will create perfectly sized flaps that will eventually wrap over the edges of the book, securing the contact paper in place.

Applying the Paper to Your Book

• Check to make sure you have a 4 centimetres (1.6 in) border of contact paper everywhere but at the book’s spine. These borders will become the flaps that attach to the book’s cover.
• It's wise to begin by applying contact paper to the back cover so you can get the hang of smoothing the paper before you try the front cover. If you leave unsightly bubbles on the back cover, you can improve your technique when you tackle the front. [10] X Research source
• To ensure that the book sticks to the paper, press the exposed edge of the book firmly onto the exposed edge of the contact paper.
• Slowly move the ruler from side to side as you press the contact paper down. This will help to ensure even coverage and minimize bubbles. [12] X Research source
• Don’t press too hard with the ruler. Instead, focus on applying even pressure.
• Now that it’s protected by contact paper, you can personalize your book without making permanent changes to the cover. [16] X Research source

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The Biggest Differences Between Netflix's '3 Body Problem' and the Book

So, are they called San-Ti or Trisolarans?

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Season 1 of 3 Body Problem and spoilers for the books in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.

The Big Picture

• In 3 Body Problem , five main characters replace the two book characters of The Three-Body Problem , making the story more diverse.
• Thomas Wade leads a supranational intelligence agency that faces the San-Ti on directly as opposed to his book counterpart.
• Plots like the Wallfacer program are introduced early, and the show's characters are bigger and more complex.

After what feels like 400 years of waiting, 3 Body Problem finally hit Netflix this week. The new series by David Benioff , D.B. Weiss , and Alexander Woo adapts the seminal Remembrance of Earth's Past sci-fi series by Liu Cixin . With his blessing , the trio did a major overhaul of the original novels to make their premise and stories fit the television format, and, lucky for readers and viewers alike, most of these changes work . From the number in the title to replacing "Trisolarans" with "San-Ti" as the name of the alien invader species, a lot was changed, but there are five changes that work especially well in the context of the adaptation . Let's hope the Sophons agree.

3 Body Problem

A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.

'3 Body Problem' Features Five Main Characters Who Are Friends

The most immediately noticeable change 3 Body Problem made from the novels are the protagonists. In The Three-Body Problem , the first book in Liu Cixin's trilogy, there are two main characters who are followed around - Ye Wenjie ( Zine Tseng / Rosalind Chao ) and Wang Miao. Only the first is in the Netflix adaptation, while Miao's role was diluted into five original characters , who then take the role of protagonists.

Each of the protagonists embodies a different aspect from the novels , not only the first one, but the other two as well. Augustina "Auggie" Salazar ( Eiza González ) is the closest to Wang Miao, as she is the one who sees a countdown projected into her retina and is a nanotechnology researcher. Saul Durand ( Jovan Adepo ) is based on Luo Ji, the main character in the second novel, The Dark Forest . He is the person to whom Ye Wenjie tells the secret of how to beat the San-Ti, and is then targeted by the aliens to be killed. Later, he becomes a Wallfacer because of that, although he doesn't want or understand the job.

Jin Cheng ( Jess Hong ) is based on Cheng Xin, one of the main characters in Death's End , the third novel. She proposes a plan to send a probe to the San-Ti with the brain of a human as a reconnaissance tactic. Will Downing ( Alex Sharp ) is based on Yun Tianming, also of Death's End , the dying friend of Cheng who is in love with her and volunteers his brain to be sent on the probe. Only Jack Rooney ( John Bradley ) is a real original character, whose death drives the other four to go further in the plot of the San-Ti invasion.

Vera Ye Becomes the Mentor of the Five Protagonists

What first puts the five protagonists on the path to fighting back against the San-Ti, however, is their mentor, Doctor Vera Ye ( Vedette Lim ). In the past , she put together a group of "star pupils" with the five protagonists , who were her students at Oxford. Years later, she commits suicide at the beginning of 3 Body Problem , one of many scientists who became traumatized after science "broke," which we learn after was caused by the Sophons. She is also the daughter of Ye Wenjie and Mike Evans ( Ben Schnetzer / Jonathan Pryce ).

In the novels, this character is very different, starting with the name: Yang Dong. She is the daughter of Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining, Wenjie's superior at the Red Coast installation. She commits suicide at the beginning of the novel, prompting her boyfriend, Ding Yi, to be called to the war council meetings afterward. Wang Miao admired her from afar and never had the courage to talk to her , but grew closer to Ye Wenjie and Ding Yi after her death. Hers shocking statement that "Physics has never existed, and will never exist" is the result of the Sophons meddling with her research, leading to her suicide. But there was no group of star pupils.

Thomas Wade Commands a Supranational Secret Agency

The investigation around the suicides of scientists and other members of the scientific community is carried out by Clarence Shi ( Benedict Wong ), who reports to Thomas Wade ( Liam Cunningham ). In the novels, Shi goes by the name Shi Qiang (or by his nickname, Da Shi), and starts off as a Beijing cop who gets tangled in the investigation with Wang Miao , but in 3 Body Problem , Shi is part of the Strategic Intelligence Agency (SIA), which seems to be a supranational organization led by Wade. In the novels, Wade also leads an intelligence agency but is a much different character, and definnitely not as charming.

In the novels, especially the first one, every decision and initiative that concerns the fight against the San-Ti invaders goes through a war council with members of many national governments and their military, including China and the USA. Later, the UN establishes the Planetary Defense Council (PDC), a central body to carry these things out. In the series, however, it looks like the SIA is taking the place of the war council , with Wade himself centralizing every major decision. His job description isn't clear, but he has a very hands-on approach and goes from interrogating suspects to creating and supervising all projects that humanity has to fight back against the San-Ti.

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The wallfacer program is bigger and more complex.

In the last episode, Saul Durand's life is turned upside down as he's ordered to take part in a ceremony at the UN headquarters in New York. There, he is nominated as one of three Wallfacers. Wallfacers are people who are handpicked by the UN to come up with secret plans to defeat the San-Ti . They will create those plans only in their minds and have carte blanche to use any resource they require, and their plans will become public only when it's time to execute them at the Doomsday Battle against the invaders.

Saul was nominated as a Wallfacer because he is the only person the San-Ti are actively trying to kill, although no one knows why. There are two others with him : General Hou Bolin ( Clem Cheung ), who is a military strategy scholar, and Professor Leyla Ariç ( Salem Hadeed ), a soldier who fought and defeated ISIS in Kurdistan. Saul's equivalent in the novels is Luo Ji, an astronomer and social science enthusiast who figured out his nomination came because of Ye Wenjie's suggestion to create a new field of study called "cosmic sociology. " There are three other Wallfacers with him: former US Defense Secretary Frederick Tyler, former president of Venezuela Manuel Rey Díaz, and Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Bill Hines. Eventually, only Luo Ji survives, as people are attempting to debunk each Wallfacer's plans , the Wallbreakers.

‘3 Body Problem’ Mixes Elements of All Three Novels, Not Just the First

Adapting such a complex story from books to screen can't be easy. Of course, many elements had to be changed, so Benioff, Weiss, and Woo remixed the whole trilogy to make it fit the television format. This way, the first season of 3 Body Problem contains elements not only of its trilogy counterpart, but of the other two novels as well . The overall setting of the narrative corresponds to that of The Three-Body Problem , with the Trisolaran — I mean, San-Ti! — invasion being gradually revealed until the point at which humanity panics about it, but the series also makes it much more about the characters.

This is important because audiences tend to react better to character-driven narratives and story arcs, and that's something that the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy doesn't really focus on — it's a whole other medium, after all, and it works there. Although humanity's overall arc moves through the trilogy, each novel focuses on different characters, and this would never work on a television show. This is why introducing such different arcs right in Season 1 , like the Wallfacers and the human brain probe, for example, is so important, as it gives them time to develop over the next seasons . Hopefully, 3 Body Problem performs well with Netflix's audience, and we get to see how all these changes develop in the future.

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