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Cover for Kiki's Delivery Service featuring an illustration of a young woman in a black dress with a red bow on her hair who is a witch on a broomstick in the sky with a black cat hanging off the end holding on as if it's about to fall and a red purse hanging off the tip of the broomstick's handle. In the background is a view of the landscape from above like you might see from an airplane. The cover's title is displayed in dark red.
Cover for The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky featuring an illustration of a boy who is swimming and breaching from the perspective that you are deep in the water underneath them.
Cover for When the Spring Comes to the DMZ featuring an illustration of a series of animal groups such as wild pig and birds in what appears to be a junkyard in the foreground and a child and their older relative walking together in the background.
Cover for We Are the Dancing Forest featuring a collage-like illustration of a blue polka dotted elephant with a tree coming out of it's trunk running up a purple hill to the left surrounded by birds with a person on top of it while another person chases from behind. The background is white and the title is displayed in bright red and curves along the back of the elephant. The remaining text is displayed in bright green.
Cover for Temple Alley Summer featuring an illustration of a young girl with a blue dress and pink backpack on running down a city alleyway and looking back at the viewer.
Cover for I am You: A Book about Ubuntu featuring an illustration of four kids who are all of different ethnicities on a tandem bicycle that seats three with a dog in the front basket and the last kid in the back basket. They're riding through a colorful natural landscape of rolling hills where each hill is a different color and orange flowers are in the foreground. The ground is orange and the sky is light pink with blue birds in it. The title is displayed in orange and pink.
Cover for Book of Questions featuring an illustration of a large spiral seashell with water, ships, and animals including rabbits and fish flowing out of it. It appears to be floating in space and there are decorative red lines radiating out of the center of the cover. The book's title and authors are displayed in green and alternate between being filled our just outlined.
Cover of The Young Teacher and the Great Serpent featuring an illustration of a large forest along a shore that is stylized and drawn in bright blue, teal, green, orange, and brown colors. A woman approaches the forest and a ways away a woman and a child play near the water.
Cover of Thunderbird: Book One featuring an illustration of an orange and blue phoenix-like bird in front of a tree with brown leaves and stylized flames at the base. The cover has a stylized border made of snowflake-like shapes at the corners and comb-like shapes at the borders.
Cover for A Saree for Ammi featuring an illustration of a woman and her child where the woman is making a textile using a loom while her daughter looks on. There are colorful patterned textiles in the background and the cover's background is an orangey brown.
Cover for Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection featuring a dramatic pencil illustration of a solitary older woman with a head covering holding a protest sign on a white background with wind-like flourishes around her. The book's title is displayed in red and black.
Hero image representing the Portals category featuring the logo for the Worlds of Words website depicting a simple graphic logo with the site's title and a globe-like image surrounded by three green, purple, and red flourishes.
Hero image for Picture Book Makers featuring a photo of the organization's booth at a convention with people sitting at a table surrounded by a booth with books and illustrated walls.
Hero Image for the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art featuring an iconic illustration of a caterpillar with a green body and red head and the title of the museum in black helvetica-like block letters below it. Everything is on a white background.
Hero image for The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Books featuring one of the original pencil illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland depicting Alice serving food to an old lion and a unicorn with other characters in the background.
Hero image for Storyweaver featuring the organization's logo which has the name "storyweaver" in lowercase letters and the letters for "story" bolded. The "o" in story is a floral wreath. Above it is the text "Pratham Books" in all uppercase letters.
Hero image for the Howard University Center for AFrican Studies' Children's Africana Book Awards featuring the logo for the award depicting the acronym c.a.b.a in bright blue, green, orange-beige, and red colors with an illustration of a spider reading a book within the first letter.
Hero image for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Children's Book of the Year featuring the council's logo depicting a graphic illustration of a child reading a book next to the organization's name and the text "Since 1945 - Your Connection to Story" below it all in dark blue on a light blue background. There is a graphic of butterflies flying in the top right of the image as well.
Hero image for Seven Stories, the virtual exhibit at The National Centre for Children's Books featuring their logo which is the text "seven stories" in all lowercase letters with alternating colors for each letter in purple, green, pink, and blue hues. Below it is the text "The National Centre for Children's Books" in a smaller font in light grey. The image is on an off-white background.
Hero image for Outside in World featuring a stylized illustration that appears like a claymation screenshot of a globe made up of different styles and colors of block letters and a window whose shutter is a book with a child peaking his head out of it.
Hero image for Kirkus Reviews featuring their logo which is their organization's name in an all caps blue serif font on a grey background.
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