Libraries, like many other cultural institutions, have to get really creative nowadays to remind people that they still exist under all these lockdowns. One of the fresher trends on social media is the #BookCoverChallenge sweeping over Twitter. The mechanics of it are simple: people try to recreate book cover images submitted by libraries or from their own resources using what they have in their home.

From jabs at the quarantine toilet paper craze, to the more weird submissions, to the innocent and naive attempts of children, this challenge has delivered for sure. The underlying pattern that we see here is that children's books, or children's attempts with children's books, to be more precise, were definitely the most popular and most frequent. Perhaps it's because children are more perceptive to creative tasks, or perhaps it's the fact that parents have a unique opportunity to bond with their children. Or maybe there's just nothing to do at home.

In either case, the results are wholesome and completely positive—the longer you look, the more they make you smile. What are your thoughts, Pandas? Maybe you saw a book that you like yourself, or maybe you remembered your reading list or your debt to the local library? Share with us in the comments below.

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"To go or not to go, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler to use the last of the loo roll or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous hoarders..."

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Isabella Sherman
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, I've seen this in the children's section of the library when I used to volunteer there! It's one of the newer ones, but I've sorta wanted to read it just for fun.(too late, I guess)

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Up All Night
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so sure that someone has a real pug with unicorn costume, now I'm disappointed with the net forever

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CR Harvey
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try, people, try. Mad elephants are bad news.

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Candace Sunlight
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always thought this was about how to become Michelle Obama. Only now do I realize that the title is "Becoming" and it's by Michelle Obama! XD lol

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Boop
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

:0 Boys can't play with dolls!!! (just kidding, I'm not stupid. Boys and girls can play with whatever they want)

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Up All Night
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Illustrated by Quentin Blake". Illustrators like this were the bane of my childhood entertainment. I have never found these sloppy kind of pictures pretty and I never understood why kids cannot get nice art.

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Annie
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The whole series is great reading!

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Daune Jaimes Diaz
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ya'll need to read this book! Its amazing. This is a continuation, not a sequel, of Brit Marie . She is a supporting character in My agrandmaother Told Me To Tell You She's Sorry. I've never had a book hit me in the heart quite like this one did. Its amazing

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Annie
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like they both had fun

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Jiwoo Chang
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3 years ago

there he is!

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Up All Night
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't even want to know what these books are about...

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Oliver Godula
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor dinosaur getting whacked across the head by a crazy scientist

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cat man
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the real person looks as if you stopped him mid Naruto run

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cat man
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Celts unite! take off your clothes i got the blue and white paint show no fear kill the Romans!!!

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