Comments on: Girls in Jeans http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/girls-in-jeans/ Children's and YA Book Covers Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:39:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: L. http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/girls-in-jeans/#comment-70 L. Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:57:31 +0000 http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/girls-in-jeans/#comment-70 Hey Tad ~ Thanks for bringing this to my attention. One of my aims for this blog is to pull out ideas or trends, identify them and then follow them along. People start contributing their input and voila! eventually you get a body of knowledge? If that makes any sense. Life and Crimes looks like an interesting book and seems to be getting good blog buzz. Hey Tad ~ Thanks for bringing this to my attention. One of my aims for this blog is to pull out ideas or trends, identify them and then follow them along. People start contributing their input and voila! eventually you get a body of knowledge? If that makes any sense. Life and Crimes looks like an interesting book and seems to be getting good blog buzz.

]]> By: TadMack http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/girls-in-jeans/#comment-69 TadMack Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:12:34 +0000 http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/girls-in-jeans/#comment-69 Hiya, I *JUST* got a look at Lisa Graff's <I>The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower</i> and it's got a younger girl with her back turned and the ubiquitous crossed fingers! I thought of you immediately and smiled. At least it's about a girl running a con game and directly to do with faking. On the cover of <i>How It's Done</i> it never quite seemed to match as well. Hiya,
I *JUST* got a look at Lisa Graff’s The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower and it’s got a younger girl with her back turned and the ubiquitous crossed fingers! I thought of you immediately and smiled. At least it’s about a girl running a con game and directly to do with faking. On the cover of How It’s Done it never quite seemed to match as well.

]]> By: Andrew Karre http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/girls-in-jeans/#comment-2 Andrew Karre Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:59:52 +0000 http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/girls-in-jeans/#comment-2 Hello- I acquired and edited both of the Flux books you mention in this post. I'd be happy to discuss the decision-making and design processes, if you'd like. Different in-house designers did both covers. We did sweat the similarities, but in the end decided that the audiences were different enough that it wouldn't be an issue in the marketplace. This is definitely a design trend, and it does make a lot of sense (which would probably explain why it's somewhat overdone). It allows you to give a sense of the character and the tone of the book without using a face, which, I think, can encroach on the readers' imagining of the character. The drawbacks are many, though. For instance, there are certainly too many really skinny girls on these covers (one very perceptive teen reader took us to task on the fact that the girl on the cover of How It's Done is much skinnier than the girl described in the book). Thanks for an interesting blog, Andrew Hello-

I acquired and edited both of the Flux books you mention in this post.

I’d be happy to discuss the decision-making and design processes, if you’d like. Different in-house designers did both covers. We did sweat the similarities, but in the end decided that the audiences were different enough that it wouldn’t be an issue in the marketplace.

This is definitely a design trend, and it does make a lot of sense (which would probably explain why it’s somewhat overdone). It allows you to give a sense of the character and the tone of the book without using a face, which, I think, can encroach on the readers’ imagining of the character. The drawbacks are many, though. For instance, there are certainly too many really skinny girls on these covers (one very perceptive teen reader took us to task on the fact that the girl on the cover of How It’s Done is much skinnier than the girl described in the book).

Thanks for an interesting blog,
Andrew

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