TTT: Top Ten Classics

Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, this week's topic: Top Ten Classic Books

1.  Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

2.  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

3.  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

4.  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5.  A Separate Peace by John Knowles

6.  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

7.  The Stranger by Albert Camus

8.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

9.  Night by Elie Wiesel

10.  1984 by George Orwell

Splash Into Summer Giveaway Hop

I'm taking part in the Splash Into Summer Giveaway Hop hosted by I am a Reader, Not a Writer and Page Turners.  Here on No Page Left Behind, the prize at stake is a Penguin Classics hardcover edition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - a gorgeous addition to any home library!  To enter this giveaway the only requirement is to fill out the form with your name, address and email.  If you follow this blog another way: twitter, facebook, or via a GFC/email/RSS subscription you will get another (+1) extra entry for each way you follow.  Up to 3 extra entries!

 Winner will be chosen at random using random.org (must live in the US) - good luck!  I will announce the winner on June 1st.  For a chance to win other goodies check out the blogs listed on the linky at the bottom of the post.

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Confluence of Crafts and Reading!

Penguin classics commissioned artist Jillian Tamaki to make three gorgeous embroidered covers for their Fall 2011 collection.  These are breathtaking!  I think my favorite one is the cover for The Secret Garden but they are all composed so intricately and beautifully.

All of the backs are also embroidered and each feature a little quote from the book.

I don't own any of these great titles so I may have to go out and purchase these beauties come fall!  To see Ms. Tamaki's process of creating the covers, check out her blog here.

Judging a Book by its Cover: The Classics

Much hubbub has been made about the redesigned covers for several classic novels that seem to draw inspiration from the Twilight cover designs.

Pros:

• May encourage young people to read the classics

Cons:

• Misleading...these works are not imitations of Stephanie Meyers
• Shudder-inducing for some
• Insulting to teen readers...they'll only be enticed if it looks Twilight-esque??

My thoughts are that if it brings more readers to these wonderful books then it's worth it.  Something that I'm not so keen on are the extras included in these editions.  In Pride and Prejudice some of the extras are: "Quiz: Which Pride and Prejudice Girl Are You?" and "What If Darcy and Elizabeth Lived Now and Were on Facebook?" Ugh.