Posted by Nat Bernstein
Orphan Number Eight author Kim Van Alkemade shared the cover for the novel’s new large-print edition last week, and it’s no wonder she’s excited:
The title’s original book cover is striking as well, but this new artwork matches the novel’s intensity in its somber somber tones and ambiguosity — is the girl looking out the window yearning to escape, or is she simply watching the outside world from within?
It’s those lace bobby socks that kill me.
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Nat Bernstein is the former Manager of Digital Content & Media, JBC Network Coordinator, and Contributing Editor at the Jewish Book Council and a graduate of Hampshire College.