Little Sisters' Checkered Book Cover Pattern

[virgoscorpio]

Quick question.

I was at the Goodwill a week or so ago, scouting for more books (didn't find any!) when I saw other books that were published around the same time as the Little Sister series with the same checkered book-cover pattern. The other books were also published by Scholastic.

I'm guessing that the book patterns may be used to signify that the books are for a young reading level? (RL3)

[wenonah4th]

Interesting theory, but I think the majority with the checked covers WERE Ls.

[virgoscorpio]

Right ... but I have seen other non-LS or BSC books that had the same type of covers published by Scholastic around the same time (late 80s, early 90s).

[wenonah4th]

And it's always startling when they're not LS.

[supprazz]

Lots of early 90's books printed by scholastic with that apple logo used the same checker print from what I remember. Some for series bookks, and other times, for non series books, some of which I owned. Most of them would be about children in the same age group as Karen and her family and friends, and were reading level 2 and 3. One of the other series I recall having that print was 39 Kids on the Block, and another one called Peanut Butter and Jelly. I would say that Karen's LS series was the highest selling series with that print

[greer]

Jul 31, 2011 15:21:25 GMT -5 supprazz said:

Lots of early 90's books printed by scholastic with that apple logo used the same checker print from what I remember. Some for series bookks, and other times, for non series books, some of which I owned. Most of them would be about children in the same age group as Karen and her family and friends, and were reading level 2 and 3. One of the other series I recall having that print was 39 Kids on the Block, and another one called Peanut Butter and Jelly. I would say that Karen's LS series was the highest selling series with that print

I always assumed that the checkerboard pattern designated Little Apple.

[supprazz]

yeah little apple is what I meant, I thought of the green apple, forgetting that BSC has the red one

[virgoscorpio]

Thanks! That would make sense, supprazz. What you said was exactly what I thought. The books I saw were for the same age range as LS (RL 3) and also published, by Scholastic, around the same time (late 80s/early 90s).

You'd think they could get a different pattern but whatever.

I guess kids in Grade 2 and 3 love checkered patterns... haha

[supprazz]

I know I was one of those kids....and didn't Claudia have checkered black and white pants too? I'm sure kids also loved alphabet blocks

[Honeybee]

I like the checker pattern. Each LS books had different colors of the checker box.

[celaeno]

lol, I just posted about one of those Little Apple books in the What Are You Reading thread! It's this one:


The sight of those checkered book covers takes me back to elementary school book order forms, and the excitement that came with them.

[booboobrewer]

^Me too. I still love checkered stuff, all due to those books and Stacey's checkered heart-shaped sunglasses in #35

[wenonah4th]

Hey, give the girl a tablecloth!

[sparklymouse]

I automatically assumed that I would like any book with a checkered cover, so I guess it helped me pick out new stuff to read.

[supprazz]

Sometimes I found that if I liked the colour of the checkers, I was more likely to enjoy the book I was reading. Same with the cover, when it came to Little Sister.