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Top Ten Covers I Wish I Could Redesign
Well, I don’t want to redesign them because they would look terrible. However, I would like someone to do it 🙂 Some of these have actually already been redesigned 🙂
1. Everything by Sherwood Smith, especially A Posse of Princesses: I love this woman’s fantasy stories but the covers are so terrible!
2. The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore: I love, love, love this book. It did get a cover redesign that’s better. This first cover just didn’t do it!
3. Leverage by Joshua Cohen: I want this one changed and erased from my memory. It just creeps me out and I can’t handle it.
4. Life After Theft by Aprilynne Pike: Love the book. Great snarky male narrator. I really think my middle school boys would like it… if I could talk them into carrying it around!
5. Where She Went and Just One Year by Gayle Forman: It’s not that I hate these covers by any means. But, well, the books are from the boys’ perspective. I just think that had a male written these books they’d have more universally appealing covers.
6. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead: Again, love the books… not sold on the cover!
7. The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce: I cannot find a version of these that I like! Tamora Pierce is one of my favorite authors and I adore this series. But not the covers. At. All.
8. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner: While I like the more recent cover design I have a really hard time getting my students to pick it up. I think it’s a little dull for them.
9. Unhinged by A.G. Howard: I haven’t read Splintered yet partially because I think the cover is a bit unappealing. But Unhinged? I just cannot handle it!
10. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn: I really love this one but every time I see the cover I think Sesame Street.
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