Booklist Online: Book Reviews from the American Library Association

Cindy: Over at 100 Scope Notes, cover controversies are unveiled on a regular basis. Featured are book covers that pose a striking resemblance to one another. I enjoy those features and just found a set of my own:

Both have a gold skeleton key placed below the the title, both feature their same keys on [...]

Lynn: “You gotta be kidding! You never heard of Sandy Koufax?” says the unseen fan narrating this strikingly different picture book. Readers drawn to the “lenticular” cover (lenses creating the illusion of movement) will be fascinated by the story inside. The enigmatic Sandy Koufax was, arguably, the greatest left-handed pitcher ever to play [...]

Cindy: There’s a girl licking chocolate frosting (or Nutella spread) off her finger on the cover. That’s all I need to pick up The Sweet Life of Stella Madison (Random/Delacorte, July 2009). Actually, one of our BBYA teen readers reviewed this at book club and it was her comments that spurred me to read it. [...]

Cindy: We have a friend who authors the blog, 100 Scope Notes, who occasionally reports on book covers that feature similar jacket art. Travis Jonker is an elementary librarian with a great writing style and awesome sense of humor and literary taste. In addition to great book reviews you’ll find “Sunday’s Link du Jour,” [...]