***The Starry-Eyed Revue***: happy new year

We so borrowed this idea from Sara at Forever 17 Books, who got the idea from an article on Babble called Judging a Book by Its Cover: A 6-year-old Guesses What Classic Novels Are All About. Basically, it's about getting a child's perspective on the story inside the book based on just the cover art. It can be hilarious, but it can also be enlightening.

Okay, I totally missed doing these posts with Katie, and it looks like it's been right at a year since our last one. While cleaning recently, I found the folder that I kept her previous iterations in -- all 33 of them! -- so I begged April to see if Aubrey would be up to contributing, too. Lucky for me, she was! =)

This week, the girls are working on the following book:

Title: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Author: various
Series: anthology
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: October 14, 2014
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Audible

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by 12 best-selling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, Laini Tayler and Kiersten White) and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have 12 reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.

Behold, the girls' attempts at recreating My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, edited by Stephanie Perkins...

Aubrey's masterpiece & guess:

Aubrey says:

"I think it's about people who love ice skating at Christmas time. And they live in the snowy mountains."

Aubrey is quite familiar with living in the snowy mountains. I have to say though, the orange skater looks like he broke his leg, but I didn't tell her that. lol. I'm reading this book slowly right now. A story here, a story there. It's pretty cute so far. Love this time of year!

Katie's artwork & thoughts:

Katie says:

"I think it's a Christmas story and it takes place at night. And I think it's about them having fun and them all skating together."

Hehe...I love this just as much as I loved the book! I think it's adorable that Katie picked her two favorite couples to depict, rather than doing all twelve couples. Actually, what she said was, "I don't have to do all of those people, do I?" It's her vision so I just let her roll with it any old way, and I like the direction she took.

This book is seriously such a cute holiday read. You can read my review here. There's something for everyone...really! Some stories from favorite authors and some from authors I'd only ever heard of, but all of them were worth a read. This anthology definitely got me in the mood for some holiday cheer!

Have you read this book or do you plan to? What do you think of the girls' artwork and their thoughts on the story's premise?

Labels: anthology, aubrey, beautiful covers, christmas, contemporary, cover art, favorites, happy new year, holidays, judging a book by its cover, katiebug, st. martin's press

My, how time flies! I can't believe it's already 2013!!! While we're all recovering from the holidays and writing out our new year's resolutions, let's have a giveaway! =) Big thanks to Kathy at I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and Babs Book Bistro for hosting the Happy New Year 2013 Giveaway Hop! I'm going to make this easy on all of us -- well, unless you have a wishlist like mine...as long as the Nile -- so here's what you can win at my stop on this hop:

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