Classic book jackets come to life – in pictures

‘I like it, like it Sam I am’ … Dr Seuss’s 1960 Green Eggs and Ham is one of the best-selling children’s books of all time. What fun Dr Seuss might have had if GIFs were around then.

“I wanted to go back to the books that made us live, dream and believe in different things and reflect what I always imagined when I looked at their covers,” says Chilean artist Javier Jensen about his latest project. He took a break from his day job as art director in a publicity firm in Santiago de Chile to create this graphic “homage” to some of his favourite classic books.

A sinister flock sweeps across the the landscape in the first edition of The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien.

Now you see it, now you don’t ... Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick plays hard to catch in hitherto unknown ways in this GIF of the first edition cover.

‘A three-pipe problem’ … Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective adopts his favourite crime-solving pose on the cover of this story collection.

The little prince blinks with wonder as the dreamy cover of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s children’s classic, illustrated by the author himself, is brought to delicate life.

The 1925 cover for F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, designed by Catalan artist Francis Cugat.

Desert storms assail the three kings and their entourage on the cover of this old German sunday school hymn book, published in Chicago the late19th century.