earlier this afternoon i took kazul out for some explorin time and she went into this box. and simply decided to never come out. rather than fight her on this i did what ive done in the past and simply moved the whole package with her inside it into her tank instead
usually if i do this she comes out and goes to a real hide in an hour or so but not today! today she has simply refused to leave, and even if i see her head poking out a tiny bit, if i walk by and she notices she zoops right back inside like she’s afraid i’m going to take it from her
Book Jacket Credit Hunt, #1: Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede.
I popped back onto tumblr today to an explosion of reblogs on a post on Kazul, greatest & mightiest dragon of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles book series, and several corrections on the artist responsible for that specific Kazul.
Trina Schart Hyman created this version of Kazul & Cimorene, stars of Dealing With Dragons in its 1st edition, but I incorrectly credited the artist as being Dalia Hartman.
My best guess is that I stopped my search for the artist after Google & Wikipedia's crediting of "Dalia Hartman +14 others".
So which cover did Dalia Hartman do?
The only other covers with illustrator credits I've found in an exclusively virtual search are these:
JP Hardback & 2002 ENG editions, jackets by Peter de Sève.
2004 FR edition's cover, by Yves Besnier.
That's it.
Online, most vendors don't bother providing extra details on any given book past langage, page count, & publisher. It's not even a given that translators will be named, in non-English editions.
So I come to you, the collective fandoms of Tumblr, and ask: if you access to a physical copy of this book (in any language or edition), could you share what name is given for the cover artist?
In English language books, details on any given book are generally found on the first page with printed words, typically the page left of a Table of Contents but sometimes snuck before/after an Author's Note. That said, my knowledge on physical books is several years out of date: I haven't been able to read non-large print novels since 2020.
These are some other, not obviously credited covers of Dealing With Dragons that I've found:
(from left to right: 2001 German edition; ? Turkish; 2019 Turkish; ? Thai; 2006 Czech.)
Thanks to everyone who sent corrections along on the original Kazul post (which I accidentally deleted: progressively weaker vision + touchscreen = skill issue)! Seeing so much love for the Great & Mighty King Kazul, the series she stars in & the cover art of her debut book genuinely made my day. <3
kazul has been not so social the last month and a half (just the way her feeding schedule has coincided with me being away, plus a shed cycle) but last night and this afternoon asked for some open door time to poke her head out and check things out :))))
i NEED to get in my craft room and start frantically working on some mermaid tail modifications so i can wear it to swim tomorrow. but Kazul wants her open door time and who am i to deny her
