From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:11 -0500 (EST)

I don't know how much truth there is about this topic but I was told by a

publicity director at a major house that buyers, a few years back, from B&N, dictated if a YA jacket cover featured a child, no head shots were to be shown (art or photography). If so, B&N would not carry the title. We di d see, as Edward points out, countless novels with headless youth or merely

hands and/or feet on YA jackets.

Just an interesting muse...

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In a message dated 2/9/2012 3:25:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jlpowers_at_evaporites.com writes:

Some of the covers with girls in gowns are also headless.

On 2/8/2012 4:34 PM,

_ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) _sully_at_sully-writer.com_ (mailto:sully@sully-writer.com) _ wrote:

I don't think I've seen so much of this the last couple of years but there

was disturbing trend for a while in YA novels to have pictures of girls on

the cover with the head cropped off. It struck me as kind of misogynistic.

Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian

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