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From: David Richardson <rich5568_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:23:45 -0500
Red dresses for YA novels seem to be a common thing I'm seeing on advanced reading copies. Still too many gray/dark profiles or back shots of teen gir ls/young women with mist/clouds/foaming ocean or foreboding forest as a bac kground.
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:36:31 -0600 From: schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu Subject:
Cover Talk To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
As we noted in our topic description, we've been seeing a lot of faces and feet on book covers. What have you seen--or perhaps just as important--NOT seen (for better or worse) on the jackets of books for children and teens?
Megan
February: First Part of Month: Cover Talk: For awhile, it was photographs of faces. More recently, it’s been feet, whether bare or decked out in AllStars, flip-flops, flats, or Doc Martens. There are trends in cover art just as there are trends in subject matter when it comes to books for children and teens. We’ll spend the first part of February discussing book jacket first impressions, hits, and misses, and pondering the mindset of marketing (accurate or not) when it comes to cover art in books for youth. (Check out the blog JacketKnack for more on cover art: http://jacketknack.blogspot.com/)
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:23:45 -0500
Red dresses for YA novels seem to be a common thing I'm seeing on advanced reading copies. Still too many gray/dark profiles or back shots of teen gir ls/young women with mist/clouds/foaming ocean or foreboding forest as a bac kground.
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:36:31 -0600 From: schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu Subject:
Cover Talk To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
As we noted in our topic description, we've been seeing a lot of faces and feet on book covers. What have you seen--or perhaps just as important--NOT seen (for better or worse) on the jackets of books for children and teens?
Megan
February: First Part of Month: Cover Talk: For awhile, it was photographs of faces. More recently, it’s been feet, whether bare or decked out in AllStars, flip-flops, flats, or Doc Martens. There are trends in cover art just as there are trends in subject matter when it comes to books for children and teens. We’ll spend the first part of February discussing book jacket first impressions, hits, and misses, and pondering the mindset of marketing (accurate or not) when it comes to cover art in books for youth. (Check out the blog JacketKnack for more on cover art: http://jacketknack.blogspot.com/)
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
---Received on Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:23:45 PM CST
