First, there’s Seventeeth Summer by Maureen Daly (Simon Pulse, 1985) and Ein süßer Sommer (A Sweet Summer) by Petra Hammesfahr (Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla, 2004)...
Next, there’s Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones (HarperTeen, 2001) and White Death by Tim Vicary (Oxford University Press, 2008)...
Then there’s Children’s Corner: Debussy performed by the Québec Symphony Orchestra (2007) and Up from the Blue by Susan Henderson (Harper, 2010)...
And finally there’s Whisper (the Italian translation of Lament) by Maggie Stiefvater (Fanucci, Feb 2011) and The Twisted Thread by Charlotte Bacon (Hyperion, Jun 2011)!
None of these covers grabs me in a big way, though I like Seventeenth Summer well enough and the freckly girl on Up from the Blue is super cute and The Twisted Thread cover (along with the title) is quite intriguing. (How’s that for a run-on sentence?) Oh, and I dislike both covers with the girl at the window. What do you think?
There's definitely a shortage of models--leading to copy cat covers. You'd think that authors and book designers would prefer more originality.
ReplyDeleteI think I should do this for a living. Take a few pictures and then just change them up and sell them as covers!! LOL!
ReplyDeleteYour series just continues to amaze me. I wonder if you will every run out of material!
ReplyDeleteI agree - they're all okay, but none of them is outstanding.
ReplyDeleteI don't really like any of the covers. I think covers have a lot of competition lately. YA covers especially.
ReplyDeleteI did get a bit of a mom-crush on the little girl in the Up From the Blue book cover when I read it. There's something about her that reminds me of my daughter. Besides that none are all the spectacular (or worth using so often)
ReplyDeleteNone of them really grab me either. But what I like is that most of them are actually from each other, by the colors, the font, etc.
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