Amazon recently updated their product pages by posting covers for the new Animorphs books that are coming out May 2011. These covers have some slight new updates and alterations from what we have seen in the past, and I have gone ahead and posted the previous versions with these news ones in side to side comparisons. Go ahead and click them for a larger view:
From what I see so far: In #1, the border around the morphing box is gone to match the ‘glow’ that you see in #2. Also, both the cover model and the animal now seem to have a different pose. Whether this is still the same cover model from the previous version, still remains to be seen.
For #2, the most notable change is with the background. This is a good improvement, in my opinion, as everything blends a bit better with the DNA fingerprint/fur combo.
I have no idea which one is currently the final version of either book, and we likely won’t know this until we start seeing more advertisements from Scholastic promoting these books. The books are still 6 months away, so there is still plenty of wiggle room left if Scholastic wants to make any more future alterations. We’ll keep you posted if we find any more.
UPDATE: A quick look at the Scholastic Librarian Catalog for Animorphs #1 now proves that the Amazon cover was indeed the correct version. These new covers are definitely replacements for the previous versions we have seen.
The new Invasion cover kinda freaks me out 😛
Comment by Asrialys — November 22, 2010 @ 5:10 pm
Yay! I like the new Invasion cover MUCH better.
Comment by Gabrielle — November 23, 2010 @ 12:18 pm
I prefer the Amazon covers more.
Comment by Anon — November 25, 2010 @ 10:36 pm
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Comment by The Raevyn — November 28, 2010 @ 7:17 pm
Ya the covers look like something that’ll spook kids more than attract it. I dunno not feeling for it … maybe it’s ’cause I’m the 90’s kids that thought the original covers were fine. But in comparing with the newer ones, I prefer the one before it was updated.
Whatever I’ll give it a shot. I won’t judge ’til I see it morph all the way and stuff, which we can’t really see now.
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I like the changes!
Comment by matthew awesome07 — July 3, 2012 @ 8:40 pm