Photos: Whitewashed Covers Un-Whitewashed

I was cruising through my local Barnes & Noble the other day, fending off employees who seemed intent on getting me to buy a Nook, when I came upon this:

“Wait a second”, I thought. I did a double take and turned on my zoom-in vision:

Yes, indeed. It appears that the famously whitewashed Mysterious Benedict Society covers have been corrected. Remember the originals?

Back in January, School Library Journal looked into the curiously pale depiction of Sticky on these jackets (click here to read the article). Now they appear to be officially … sans whitewash? Whitewash free? What do we call this?

Whatever it’s called, it’s good to see.

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