1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Original Cover:
My Re-do:
Side by Side:
Up next week: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
(Source Image: “we did good” http://flic.kr/p/9ppwMW)
Covering the Newbery (#73): The Giver
September 24, 2012 by
About Travis JonkerTravis 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.
I am so used to seeing the original cover that I can’t imagine it any other way.