Is canning things other than delicious foods the hot new activity for youngsters? Looking at these five recent or upcoming book covers, you’d think so. Flowers, spiders, hummingbirds, kids – where are the strawberry preserves!?
Many thanks to Cindy Dobrez of Bookends for the heads up on this trend.
Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky
Keeping Safe the Stars by Sheila O’Connor
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
Surrender Elana Johnson
The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going
Any to add to the group?
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There’s also THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES – jar. I’ll never be able to read that last one though. Ugg! Designers just have no idea how bad images of spiders are for us arachnophobes!
Ah ha, a book for grown-ups joins the jar ranks.
Spiders???? Goodbye!
Lara Zielin’s THE WAITING SKY coming out in August has a tornado in a jar. An image that really grabs and holds your attention.