Charming Baker’s new covers for Roald Dahl’s short fiction
First of all, why is my name not Charming Baker? Secondly, these are really elegant and disturbing. (The Cruelty cover makes me wonderfully uncomfortable.) I do feel that Dahl’s adult fiction still has a decided cartoon or slapstick element that is not so elegant as these, but of course the elegance works against the perception that Dahl is just for kids.
Fond flashbacks now to Kakaner lending me her giant hardback Dahl short fiction collection in high school…
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Iconic book covers + subtle animations by Javier Jansen
Quiet magic. I think this is so wonderfully proximal to the quiet stirring of excitement that one feels upon seeing a favorite book cover.
Both of the above links sent my way by friend C.; thank you!
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