I’m baaack! Well. Sort of. I have not posted to this blog in years. When I first started, I couldn’t find anyone else talking about YA book covers. I was a fan of a book cover blog that cover...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/book-jacket-program/
Great faces below. It’s fun to see these all together… This round (there’s more to come- next, the illustrated covers) is the photographed faces of 2010 books that have “African American�...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/the-faces-of-10/
Still plugging away looking at the representation of people of color on book covers over the past decade or two. It’s been a little tricky to identify them, but I’ve settled on a strategy. I ...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-faces-of-97/
Have you noticed that Bloomsbury is putting its name right on the front cover these days? My memory is unreliable – I could very well be wrong… but I can’t think of any other children’s/Y...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/curiouser-and-curiouser/
Check out the Trends in Fantasy Cover Art at Orbit.net. The most common item, appearing on 60 covers – Swords. Staying strong – Dragons. On the decline – Castles… And make sure to look ...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/guns-up-bows-arrows-down/
Constantly on the lookout for how people of color have been represented on book covers over the years, and being in the midst of a weeding (for non-librarians, that means getting rid of old books...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/the-garden-of-broken-book-covers/
A coworker sent me this interesting article by James Bridle today. Food for thought… In the comments: “While the idiom of ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ retains its truth, consumers ...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/the-soon-to-be-lost-art-of-book-covers/
Just a quickie here – I was catching up on my blog reading and came across this posting called “Beautiful Portraits of Random Strangers“. The very first thing I thought: why aren’t book...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/random-strangers/
Still looking at ’90s covers (more specifically, 1997 covers), I came across this title by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I read this pre-Among the Hidden title, Leaving Fishers, when it was first r...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/defining-fishers/
I have been noticing this trend – this one isn’t about the cover, but about the title. It seemed like the word “dead” was the word of the year in YA lit. It occurred to me that I could ...
https://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/life-death-in-ya-lit/