Covering the Newbery (#17): The White Stag
In the grand tradition of “well, why not?” I’m attemting to redo the cover of every Newbery-winning book from 1922 to today. And look, we’re up to…
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Original Cover:
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My Redo:
Side by Side:
Verdict: Kinda cool, but a bit out there for a kids book cover.
Read Previous Covering the Newbery Posts:
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
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: “save me from myself” http://www.flickr.com/photos/7935264@N02/3178526259)
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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K. Seredy’s books were really important to me as a pre-teen. The original cover has the mythical and heraldic flavor of the book’s contents [of course it does, it’s by the author]. The stag is not just a stag. This is a retelling of the legend of a country’s founding, don’t mess with it!!