Cover Curiosity: Fishes
Some Cover Curiosities seem eye-rubbingly separated at birth, while others appear to simply share a similar idea. Today, I’d say we have an example of the latter.
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I love most when two covers from different worlds collide. Today we have a middle grade novel and a picture book.
Our first book:

Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers
The second cover:

Paul Meets Bernadette by Rosy Lamb
What do you say we do a bit of side by side?


The blue, the goldfish, the unique composition – we have resemblance!
Any others to add to this group?
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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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