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

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)

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