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January 28, 2011 by Travis Jonker

Cover Curiosity: Made in the Shade

January 28, 2011 by Travis Jonker   5 comments

Some of the entries into the Cover Curiosities file are clearly the doing of the Intentional Bogeyman (holding stuff, I’m talking about you), others I chalk up to the Ghost of Random Chance. I am very superstitious about about my cover similarities. Today’s submission strikes me as a member of the latter camp, but I can’t help but see some common ground in these two appealing covers. Up first…

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Bunny Days by Tao Nyeu

and…

Calvin Can’t Fly by Jennifer Berne, illustrated by Keith Bendis

And, just for kicks, lets try a new way to compare the two:

The composition, the white space, the text locations – certainly similar. Not that I’m complaining.

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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.

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  1. megwrites says

    January 28, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    I haven’t read Calvin Can’t Fly, but Bunny Days is fabulous. So random how similar the covers are!

    • Travis says

      January 28, 2011 at 7:47 pm

      I’m a big fan of both books – you should check out Calvin if you get the chance. Yes, good description of the similarity – random.

  2. Zoe says

    January 30, 2011 at 1:45 am

    Love the moving image with both covers! Made me smile this morning.

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