Sometimes book covers demand that you open them up and take a look at what's inside. But who would have thought that some of the best covers would show up on the classics? I've been raving about the covers that Penguin came out with for a handful of classic reads like Frankenstein, The Three Musketeers, and Candide. I want to give Penguin a big hug, not just for creating hilarious comic strip renditions of the tales inside, but for devoting their design efforts to older literature that often gets overlooked among the zillions of new reads that make their way onto store shelves. It's great to see these stories get revived covers; I don't know why people think that "classic" books should have oil paintings on the cover. Come on, these books are still great - that's why they're called "classics" (though I know different people have different definitions of what constitutes a classic. But that's a different topic altogether).
Anyway, the comic covers are fantastic in and of themselves. When you combine them with a great read, it's a winning combination. These are some of the best ever!
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This is true of so many of the books my kids have had to read in school. These classics seem so often packaged to appeal to the teachers and librarians that the adolecent reader is often turned off by the covers that seem out of step with other media directed toward young people. I'
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