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Bunheads by Sophie Flack
Lynn: Peer into the heart of any of us who have watched a ballet performance and you will find a secret wish to join the corps! Those gorgeous costumes, the beautiful music, those amazing leaps that...
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Covers You Remember
Cindy: I’m still digesting carbs from all the cookies I’ve consumed in the past week, but I am also chewing on the Cover Story blog post over at Booklists’ Book Group Buzz blog. Neil Hollands asks us...
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A Real Mystery…
Cindy: I recently ran two book fairs in my middle school libraries and ran into a real-life mystery: WHY is this cover art on the paperback of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life As We Knew It???? Seriously....
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Cover Art Can Be a Mystery
Cindy: Sometimes the biggest mystery about a book is the cover art! When Lynn and I worked together in the library we did tandem booktalking a lot. It was good for the students since we each had our...
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Diego Rivera by Susan Goldman Rubin
Lynn: The lives of artists are often a challenge to write about for children and none more so than Diego Rivera. Controversial in almost all aspects of his life, Diego Rivera was also a towering...
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Pulpy Library Paperbacks
This one’s been around the block a time or two, but there have been some new images added since I first saw it. And, just like the mystery genre, sometimes the old memes are the best memes. What’s not...
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Do Open Graves Make Readers Open Books?
Cindy and Lynn: Maggie Reagan’s review of Jennifer Donnelly’s These Shallow Graves reminded us of a recent trend on YA book covers: open graves. Be sure that these books are included in your Halloween...
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Book Cover Update: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Cindy: Many school libraries do an annual inventory. Some shut down early to do it. I don’t believe in that. If I’m missing important books, I know it long before inventory time rolls around because...
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Bookends Readers’ Choice, 2015: What Is Your Favorite Youth Book?
Cindy and Lynn: Booklist’s 2016 Editors’ Choice lists were announced yesterday in the REaD ALERT newsletter and you can follow this link to the Editors’ Choice Books for Youth, 2015 to see their...
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Book Cover Update: White Darkness
Cindy: Last month our Book Cover Update post about Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret found a wide audience and generated many comments. Lynn and I have found many other enduring titles...
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Book Cover Update: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Cindy: While in Boston last month for the announcement of the 2016 Newbery Medal winner, we saw the gorgeous new cover art for the 1976 winner, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Taylor’s book is...
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More Books to Smile About: An Easy Library or Classroom Display
Cindy and Lynn: Five years ago we posted about this easy smiley-face bulletin board, and Booklist‘s inaugural Spotlight on Humor issue seems like a good excuse to share it with readers who may not have...
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Book Cover Update: The Breadwinner
Cindy: International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8th, provided a perfect excuse to look at the cover-art changes on Deborah Ellis’ The Breadwinner. Eleven-year-old Parvana’s story of life in...
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These Books Might as Well Be Naked
Some book jackets, as the name implies, dress up the books that wear them. Others dress them down—and some undress them all the way. As H. L. Mencken could very well have said, no one ever went broke...
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K-I-S-S-I-N-G on YA Book Covers
Cindy and Lynn: Booklist’s #SeptemberRomance seems like the perfect time to highlight all the kissy face on teen book covers. Let’s start slowly with the lipstick traces on Anna Michels’ 26 Kisses...
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Cover Art Déjà vu: Girls in White Dresses
Cindy and Lynn: We feature cover art trends frequently, and so we know that when a book is really popular, there’ll be a trend for similar color schemes on read-alike titles. (Remember the hot pink and...
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Losing Face
Cindy and Lynn: So many of us are running around frantically—it’s that time of year. Like our mothers told us, we’d lose our heads if they weren’t attached. But recently, some teen books seem to have...
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THICK AS THIEVES: A New Queen’s Thief Tale
Lynn: Faithful readers know that Megan Whalen Turner’s new book, Thick as Thieves (May 2017), was the advanced readers copy we were most excited to bring home from ALA Midwinter. Well, I greedily...
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Cover Trend Alert: Laying the Paint on Thick
As we celebrate the arts this month here at Booklist, I noticed a painterly trend in recent book covers. Certainly, abstract art on book covers is nothing new, and going down the aisles of the newest...
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Cover Trend Alert: Hypnotic Circles
This mesmerizing design concept has been a constant presence in my peripheral vision since David Mitchell’s World Fantasy Award–winning (and starred review-receiving!) novel The Bone Clocks was...
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