{"id":3885,"date":"2021-01-14T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2021-01-18T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:59:56","slug":"book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Name that book: A picture is worth a thousand words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3174\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/61B89794-B775-48A5-B788-3BB71C9D5233-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/61B89794-B775-48A5-B788-3BB71C9D5233-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/61B89794-B775-48A5-B788-3BB71C9D5233-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/61B89794-B775-48A5-B788-3BB71C9D5233.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Strapped for ideas how to engage students in the online classroom? Scrambling for methods and resources to maintain momentum?<\/p>\n<p>Enter book covers. A popular internet game called &#8220;Name That Book&#8221; or &#8220;Guess That Book&#8221; is a sure-fire way to keep a never-ending Zoom-class fresh, instructor included. Variations of the game, with some lockdown-inspired creativity, can be incorporated into library sessions, too.<\/p>\n<p>Browse our collection of various types of book cover games below, created by others. The examples illustrate what\u2019s already available out there. Listed in order of difficulty, these games also indicate that we should consider our students&#8217; interests and reading level before every single class or before any other attempts to engage our target audience.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quiz-bliss.com\/angie\/famous-book-cover-art-trivia-quiz-021119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 famous books<\/a> &#8211; Tell the tile from the cover (author shown on cover)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/hanifahrahman\/can-u-judge-books-by-their-cover?bfsource=bfocompareon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classic covers<\/a> &#8211; Title only in multiple choice quiz<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/quiz\/2014\/may\/22\/fiction-classics-cover-design-quiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quiz from The Guardian<\/a> &#8211; Book cover only in the picture, multiple choice quiz with author and title<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jamiejones\/only-a-true-bookworm-can-beat-this-cover-quiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time travel quiz<\/a> &#8211; Book cover only, listed by decades, multiple choice with author and title<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jamiejones\/first-edition-book-cover-quiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First edition covers<\/a> &#8211; Book cover only, choice of two titles or two covers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldwaterways.co.uk\/news\/can-you-guess-the-iconic-novels-from-these-minimalist-book-covers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iconic novels, minimalist covers<\/a> &#8211; A minimalist book covers quiz with stripped-back designs inspired by some classic, definitive book covers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/books\/features\/classic-books-quiz.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classic children&#8217;s books<\/a> &#8211; Snippets of the cover, mouse over for answer, click for all editions (from AbeBooks)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenovl.com\/blog\/2019\/7\/15\/can-you-guess-what-book-this-is-based-on-a-very-ambiguous-part-of-its-cover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guess from an ambiguous part of the cover<\/a> &#8211; Probably one of the more difficult ones, with a small part of the cover only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are collections created by other libraries, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/slideplayer.com\/slide\/13194760\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blanked Out Books.<\/a> You can have a guess, then click &#8220;next&#8221; to reveal the answer. It comes with downloadable slides from Suffolk Library.<\/p>\n<p>Want to create you own? We have successfully used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canva<\/a> to set up our own <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/stressbuster-name-that-book\/\">&#8220;Name That Book&#8221; stressbusters<\/a> before the <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/resources\/designworkshop\/\">graphic design workshop<\/a> in December 2020. The example above shows a yellow rose, courtesy of Stephanie Bartz, as image background, and a Canva &#8220;element&#8221; of a business card with a name on it &#8211; an easy one to create and solve: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/32y2ESg\">The name of the rose<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strapped for ideas how to engage students in the online classroom? Scrambling for methods and resources to maintain momentum? Enter book covers. 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