Controversy Report: Cover Art Rip Off?

I enjoy socks, especially when they’re warm. It appears that I’m not alone. When I recently saw the cover for the Vintage Classic version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland over at Becky’s Book Reviews, I couldn’t help but notice a similarity to a recently published (an well received) title. You be the judge. Here’s the Alice cover:

Pretty nice, right? Well, here is the cover for “A Crooked Kind of Perfect”:

Huh?! The stripes, the background, the text with curlicues – these appear to have been separated at birth. What is going on here?

Filed under: Cover Curiosity