Title: I Am Fifteen - and I Don't Want to Die
Author: Christine Arnothy
Cover artist: Mitchell Hooks
YOURS FOR: $9
Best things about this cover:
- It's hard to make fun of a 15-year-old who does not want to die, particularly when the people who might kill her are Nazis.
- This book was apparently published in order to capitalize on the brief vogue in diaries written by young girls hiding from Nazis.
- She's pretty chic for a war victim.
- This cover is slightly boring (not nearly Hooks's best work) but I do love the barbed wire detail around her ankles, and the color of the sky.
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3 comments:
Yeah, I had three wisecracks all loaded up and ready to go until I scrolled down to see the barbed wire. 70 years later, and the Nazis are still spoiling the fun.
And by the way, great to see a new cover up!
Hmm... she looks decidedly Vogue in her Grace Kellyish overcoat and matching shoes, though the khaki green color is armyish and the shoes smack of grandma. I don't remember Anne Frank striking any poses.
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