"One... two... FIVE!"

[bunsen_h]

This is a book "mash-up" that's very dependent on your knowing a couple of children's books. If you don't get it, it's probably not worth the trouble of an explanation, but the "parents" are L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time and Nesbit's Five Children And It.  It's a bit surprising to me how many people think that E. Nesbit's book really was titled Three Children And It, per a Google search.  Four ... was also somewhat popular.

This took much longer to put together than I expected, mostly because of difficulty matching the font for the authors' names.  The font identifiers at www.linotype.com and www.identifont.com came up with entirely wrong suggestions, based on a series of questions about the font's properties; with Adobe's, I couldn't even figure out how to mark the "categories" for a couple of words on the cover of a book.  The identifier at www.myfonts.com took an uploaded image and quickly gave me a couple of possibilities that were pretty much bang-on — I still had to tweak the proportions a bit but it was enough to work with.  I don't have access to the font (Century Expanded Italic) on any of the computers here, but for such a small bit of text, copy/pasting from images of a font sampler didn't take much work.
 

Comments

[pameladean]

This is kind of breaking my brain. Of course that's the cover on the copy our teacher read to us in the sixth grade, and the copy I eventually got for myself.

I didn't read Nesbit until I was in college.

P.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

It's the same cover as on the copy of the book that I bought in grade school. I became terribly frightened part-way through my first reading of the book — the scene in which the children first see It, and are losing control, IIRC — and hid the book between two much larger books in my bookcase. I didn't try it again until I'd regained my courage, a couple of years later.

I've just found out that a graphic adaptation of the story has just been released, and I'm giving it serious consideration. The samples I've seen of the artwork haven't grabbed me, but it does seem that the artist has stayed very true to the original. That's the kind of thing I'd like to encourage... as opposed to the butchery that Disney committed a few years ago.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That's terrific (in both senses of the word).

When I'm doing a font search I tend to use What the Font?.