Snoopy Treasures rereredesigned

I’ve seen publishers update their planned cover as the release date grows closer, but I don’t think I’ve seen one go through four planned iterations before now… and in this case, the book is mine! Amazon now has the fourth cover it’s displayed for my book The Snoopy Treasures, being released in November:

SnoopyTreasures

Which is basically a change in which dancing Snoopy and dancing Woodstock clips they use away from the third version:

SnoopyTreasuresCover3It’s only a slight reworking from the second cover:

SnoopyTreasuresCover2Which was itself more of a variation from the first:

SnoopyTreasuresCover

 

 

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