Cover Retrospective: Sweet Valley High The Sweet Valley High covers (the originals, at least) were iconic. I first came across them in my local library and I was hooked in by the glamorous cover models and soft pastel palettes. The covers were painted by James Mathewuse, a book cover artist known for his work on the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series (incidentally, he also created the cover art for […]
Sweet Dreams to Stardom I have done similar posts about famous people appearing on young adult book covers (see posts here and here) but I thought it would be fun to do a post focusing on the Sweet Dreams series of romance books. When researching the aforementioned posts, I noticed that there were a lot of familiar faces on Sweet Dreams covers though I couldn’t corroborate most of them. There […]
Famous People on Book Covers #2 I was going through my older posts and fixing all formatting / broken links etc. when I came across a post I did back in May 2015 about Famous People on Book Covers (part 1 – link here). I promised a part 2 but never delivered on that promise. I had prepped for a second post but never got around to actually writing the […]