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1934: Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs Early Cover: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: I like it! Will kids? No! Your thoughts? Read Previous Covering the Newbery Posts: 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze 1932: Waterless Mountain 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years 1929: The Trumpeter of […]
On Mondays I’m doing my darnedest to re-cover every book that has won the Newbery Medal. Let’s take a look at our latest candidate… 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Original Cover: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: Hmm, I like the bold colors of the redo, but overall I’m […]
Another Monday, another Newbery cover gets redone. I’m attempting to freshen up each and every Newbery winner, you see, starting at the start and working my way up to modern times. How did things turn out this go-round? Let’s have a look… 1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer Early Cover: My Redo: Side by […]
The cover redo-a-thon continues. Starting at the beginning and working my way up to today, I’m giving every Newbery-winning book a cover makeover. On to our current candidate… 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth Original Cover: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: I don’t mind this one too much. Cat could […]
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: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: I’m not sure about the kid appeal level of my redo. Too […]
Every Monday (save for the Mondays where I don’t) I’ll try my hand at giving each and every Newbery Medal-winning book a new cover, beginning from the beginning. Today’s installment of Covering the Newbery bring the 20s to a close. Is it with a bang – or with a whimper? Let’s find out… 1929: The […]
My mission is this – give each and every Newbery Medal-winning book a new cover, beginning way back in the golden days of 1922 and working my way up to today. I have a ways to go, so enough with the chatter – let’s take a look at the latest cover redo. 1928: Gay Neck: […]
After a holidays and ALA Midwinter induced hiatus, Covering the Newbery is back up and running. The basics? I’m redoing the cover of every Newbery Medal-winning book, beginning with The Story of Mankind and working up to today. Uh, this little project is going to take a while. My rules are these: The image I […]
If there’s anything I know to be true, it’s the old adage “A year of good fortune begins with a reimagined Newbery-winning book cover”. Or something like that. Today I continue my mission of re-jacketing every Newbery winner. 1926: Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, illustrated by Else Hasselriis […]
My goal? To re-do the cover of every Newbery-winning book, beginning way back in the halcyon days of 1922. My rules for this project? Click here. On to the next one… 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger Older cover: Redo: Side by side: Verdict: Some turn out better than others, and I’d put […]
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