Front Cover:

Sugarcane harvest at Pongal. This is the hindu festival of the winter
solstice, also called Makara Sankaranti.

OR

Flame of the Forest

Front Inside Cover:

Goldilocks learns thermodynamics!

Back Cover:

The apparent motion of the Sun around the Earth on both Summer and
Winter Solstice days. More details inside.

Back Inside Cover:

Logo of the International Year of Astronomy, 2009