Covering the Newbery (#9): Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
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:
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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
(Source Image: “My Pearl Necklace “http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricecracker/418769156/in/photostream/”)
Filed under: Covering the Newbery, Covers
About Travis Jonker
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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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.
:p
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?