In the grand tradition of “oh, why not” I am attempting to recover every Newbery-winning book from 1922 to the present. Today, we begin the 1930s…
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Original Cover:
My Redo:
Side by Side:
Verdict: I’m not sure about the kid appeal level of my redo. Too retro?
Read Previous Covering the Newbery Posts:
1928: Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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Alas, this one isn’t working for me. Too pink. Too something. And what’s that u-shaped thing in the middle of her forehead?
brenda
I think that’s the nose. Yeah this one certainly picks a color and goes for it. Such is the tricky nature of finding source images on FlickrCC. The image I uncover makes or breaks the whole operation.
Travis at first glance I was so sure that the white part was a diaper! The cheeks the legholes, the eyes fasteners of some kind? Maybe I just see diapers everywhere I look.
But Hitty – oh, I must have read that book fifty times when I was a kid. It had been my mom’s. My cover was plain buff, but that just made it look older to me.
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Ha- I’m seeing the diaper. I guess that makes this cover an optical illusion as well?
lol, oh yeah, now that you mention it – it makes sense – one that goes all the way up to her hairline. It also has a peptol-bismol Coraline vibe.
Maybe her second hundred years will find her a decent cover! Hitty is nothing if not patient.
Overall, however, I do like your cover – – er – – ups? Overs? Re-dos?