(This is NOT true for YA or middle readers. Very, very not true; accuracy is important for the target audience in that case and much more care is taken to get pictorial accuracy. But I'm not talking about those, so bear with me).
If you know, I'm curious as to why this is true. It occurs to me that it could either be because of the readers (who do, indeed, get indignant when covers are inaccurate); or it could be because of the adults who have a notion that they need to be readily able to prescreen the content of kids' books. (The need of adults to overcontrol kids' reading without reading much themselves is actually something of a rant I could go on. :->)
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Date: 2004-07-31 08:53 am (UTC)If you know, I'm curious as to why this is true. It occurs to me that it could either be because of the readers (who do, indeed, get indignant when covers are inaccurate); or it could be because of the adults who have a notion that they need to be readily able to prescreen the content of kids' books. (The need of adults to overcontrol kids' reading without reading much themselves is actually something of a rant I could go on. :->)