Back in December we first told you about the “Chapter Books” coming out under the Viz Kids label. Courtesy of Amazon (by way of our buddy Tanooki Kuribo), we have cover art for the first four announced volumes:

While I am sure that very few of us are genuinely interested in the contents of these books (like we say with the “animanga”: if you want to read the story, why not just read the original manga as the author originally drew/wrote it…?), the cover art nevertheless leaves us intrigued. The art comes from sources like various chapter title pages, but some things are swapped around and re-colored. Quite honestly, they are rather nice looking! Volumes 1 & 2 are due out 04 August 2009, while volumes 3 & 4 are due out 01 September 2009.