Covering the Newbery (#31): Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
How’s this sound? New Monday, new cover, Newbery. Do I have a slogan there? We can put that discussion on the back burner for a minute and take a look at the latest entry in the Covering the Newbery series…
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Original Cover:
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My Redo:
Side by Side:
Verdict: I think the redo changes the tone a bit, but I like the bold image.
Click here to read previous Covering the Newbery posts.
(Source image: “Nelly†http://www.flickr.com/photos/doodledan/1589244390/)
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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Love this one! Ginger Pye enjoys an occasional check-out in my library, but I just know that it would fly out if it had your cover on it! So appealing!
brenda
Thanks, Brenda. The dog image that I found (through creative commons search on Flickr) does seem to work. In the ranks of the Covering the Newbery jackets, I like this one more than many of them.
Nice. And at the top of the original cover there is the unfortunate sketch of the little boy, er, “patting” the dog, which does seem to make a re-do desirable!
That was my first thought, too, Elizabeth! That alone qualifies it for Unfortunate Cover status.