Wisden Cricketers' Almanack "The Little Wonder" was John Wisden's nickname. "Wisden" is a small-paged but a very thick book (over 1,500 pages in modern editions) with a distinctive bright yellow cover that it has carried since the 75th edition in 1938. Prior to that, covers varied between yellow, buff and salmon pink. That edition was also the first to display the famous woodcut of two cricketers, by Eric Ravilious, on its cover. It is published each April, just before the start of the English domestic cricket season. Since 2003 the woodcut has been replaced as the main feature of the front cover by
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack facsimile offer was repeated in 2014 for those willing to subscribe to the "Almanack" by direct debit. This is not a true facsimile as the back cover does not reproduce the "List of Articles" of the original, but instead on the inside there is an advertisement for "Wisden" reprints from the Willows Publishing Company and on the back a celebration of 150 years of "Wisden". At the bottom of the back cover information is provided about the reprint: "This reprint of the first edition of "Wisden" was produced in 2013 for the publisher, John Wisden & Co, an imprint of