100 Scope Notes
Inside 100 Scope Notes

Covering the Newbery (#38): The Witch of Blackbird Pond

January 13, 2012 by

What with all the standard weekly commotion, I realized that I didn’t post my weekly attempt to update the cover of a Newbery-winning book. That’s not good – I got a lot of these things to go.

Click here for the Covering the Newbery gallery.

So, better late than never…

1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Original Cover:

My Redo:

Side by Side:

Up next week: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

(Source Image: “Blackbird” http://flic.kr/p/8h9451)

Share
Filed Under: Covering the Newbery, Covers Tagged With:
About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

Comments

  1. Anne says:
    January 14, 2012 at 9:19 am

    This is my favorite Newbery re-cover yet!

Trackbacks

  1. 31 Days of Great Books: The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Somewhere in the Middle says:
    October 10, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    […] held at gunpoint or something) I might pick The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. image […]