April 2026 Colored Cover Kit

The Color: Yellow
The Object: Sun, moon, stars

Spring mimics the return of the warmth of the sun and is the color of the season's first blooms: tulips, forsythia, and daffodils.

This month, the color cover challenge is to read a book with a yellow cover and/or contains the sun, moon, or stars.



As normal, both fiction or non-fiction work.

What will you be reading?

The wiki
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Colored_CoverKIt#2026_Colored_CoverKIT

Half of a Yellow Sun is a great idea. I think I'll read that one. My edition has a stylized yellow sun on the cover.

I have lots of books with yellow covers or yellow elements on the cover but sun, moon, and stars are more difficult. Do planets count?

>3 Robertgreaves: Sure!

>4 Tess_W: In that case I may well look at The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson. The author's name is in yellow and there is a picture of Saturn on the cover.

I am planning to read Under the Endless Sky by Carlo Auriemma about his sailing aound the world. The cover is a picture of a sunise or sunset and the sky is aglow wih yellow as the sun rises or sets.

I read I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron which has a yellow cover

Read J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton for MysteryKIT. But it also has yellow and a sun (or moon?) on its cover, so it works for this as well

I read The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay with a bright marigold

Yesterday afternoon I started The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor but it's not an easy book to read in bed so I also started Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar

The last voice you hear by Mick Herron has the title printed in yellow on the cover, and the spine is also a bright yellow.

I just read Educating Caroline by Patricia Cabot, whose cover has a bright yellow background.

COMPLETED Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar (>10 Robertgreaves: )

Starting Saturnalian Gifts by Ashley Gardner for the moon in the sky

COMPLETED Saturnalian Gifts by Ashley Gardner (moon) ( >13 Robertgreaves: )

>9 Cecilturtle: A couple of years ago our community's "big read" was Ross Gay's The Book of delights, which I also found was insufferable.

>15 sallylou61: I'm so glad! I felt a bit isolated in my dislike - lol

I have completed two books with yellow:
Awkward by Ty Tashiro has a line of yellow smiley faces and Of Dice and Men by David M. Ewalt has yellow in the background.

I read Heaven is for Real for Kids which features a yellow cover.

The May thread is here:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/383658

Starting The Ampersand Papers by Michael Innes, the cover of which is very yellow:

COMPLETED The Ampersand Papers by Michael Innes (>20 Robertgreaves:)

I read A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor



The golden yellow glow makes it apparent that the sun is just under the horizon. This is as close as I can get to a celestial object.

I read Jesus Feminist, which couldn't be much more yellow:

67. When Pigs Fly by Bethany Buttons ★★★


Marked from birth and loved for his difference, Phillip grows up on a farm where wonder and danger live side by side. As the world begins to demand more of him than joy alone can give, Phillip learns that protection has rules—and breaking them has consequences. When Pigs Fly is a modern fable about bravery without glory, love without guarantees, and the moment when a life stops being small. Rich with tenderness and tension, this novel explores what it means to stand watch, to choose others over yourself, and to keep moving forward even when flight comes at a cost. Some stories are about escaping. This one is about holding the door.

This book started off reminding me of Charlotte's Web, but quickly showed why it could not live up to that tale. The story had some gaps that made it seem confusing when telling Phillip's story. I kept going back to see if I had skipped anything.

I read this book for the cover portion

I recently read Under a Lucky Star by Diane Farr, which features a few stars (celestial objects) on the cover, including the titular one to the left of the word "lucky":

I completed my read of Under An Endless Sky by Carlo Auriemma and Elisabetta Eordegh with a yellow cover and a setting sun.

I read Heart of Iron by C.M. Alongi:

My copy of Peril at End House by Agatha Christie has a yellow background:

I'm starting The rarest fruit by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Hildegarde Serle in April.

The Birding Dictionary by Rosemary Mosco also fits this category well with its bright yellow cover

Starting The Porpoise by Mark Haddon. The background colour on the cover is a sandy yellow, and it has a stylised sun.

I read
WE BEGIN AT THE END, yellow cover
THE NIGHT WAR, title in yellow letters & moon on the cover.

I have read 18 Tiny Deaths

I still plan to get to Half of a Yellow Sun some time, but the only thing fitting here I actually read this month was The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter. The picture doesn't actually show it as it appears much lighter, but the cover really is a pale yellow.

Mr. Penumbra's24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan ★★★★


The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey have landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore.

I had no idea where this book was going when I started to read it, yet I thoroughly enjoyed the ride. As the book progressed, I got more invested, and even though I did not expect the ending, I loved it.

I read this book for my April color portion, and although the cover is a bright yellow, the best part is that it glows in the dark.

Wrong thread, sorry

I read Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier which features resplendent yellow and gold flowers on its cover: