Friday Face-Off is an idea originally thought up by Books By Proxy which I stole from the fantastic The Tattooed Book Geek. The idea originally was to compare UK and US covers based on an assigned theme each week and choose the winning cover. I will be twisting it slightly: not specifically US and UK covers, just different editions.

This week’s theme is a cover featuring a lion: “If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

I have gone with C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Cover A:

Cover B:

Cover C:

Cover D:

Cover E:

Cover F:

Cover G:

Cover H:

And the winner is… D!

This week I found very few of the covers appealing to me. Certainly none featuring lions spoke to me. There was something about cover D though that resonated with me. I like the more bleak, yet serene feeling of this one with the lone character in the snowy wilderness.

What are your thoughts? Do you agree with my winner, or does one of the others work better for you? Let me know in the comments!

Next week I will be looking for a cover featuring a phone: “Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it”.