Looks like the instructional lettering used to teach children cursive. I know our teachers used it when I was in elementary school, but that was thirty years ago. Using it as an actual font is…unique.
Yeah, that what confuses me too. Maybe the author changed it from grandma to an aunt and didn’t bother with changing the title.
James F. Brown
10 years ago
This is so amateurish that “pathetic” can’t even begin to describe it. This looks like a 3rd grader did it.
Naaman Brown
10 years ago
This cover reminds me of the giant mollusks in The Monster That Challenged the World. I cannot be objective about covers that remind me of childhood traumas.
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cover1-21.jpg)
I don’t want that picture on my fridge.
That is a huge friggin’ worm!
Does that giant worm have a widdle-biddy Hitler moustache? Really?
I think that is its mouth.
And apparently the author is shy. She’ll put her name on the cover, but make it practically invisible.
It’s a game. Like find Waldo.
And yet the part that offends me most is that the letters of the cursive font don’t join.
Run, Gramma, Run!
Oh man, I can’t stop laughing at that book’s Amazon page.
“Lucia is spending the weekend with her Aunt Morgan, giving her parents some much-needed childfree time.”
I know parents sometimes want to get their kids out of their hair, but straight-up telling them so in a picture book seems rather blunt.
“Don’t expect professional level illustrations in this little book. Do expect to have fun reading the story and seeing how I envisioned it.”
I can’t be assed to make a book that looks professional, but I expect you to buy it anyway.
So what the author is saying is the kid’s a pain in the ass and she winds up being sacrificed to Gramma’s Giant Tomato Worm?
Keen!
Actually, I might read that book.
Don’t worry, with a cover like that, nobody will expect anything near a professional level. So, uh, good job?
Why does the font have arrows showing you how to draw each letter? It even has #1 and #2 for those letters that need two lines to draw. Really???
I thought you couldn’t get much lower than Bleeding Cowboy font, but now we have Cursive-By-The-Numbers
Looks like the instructional lettering used to teach children cursive. I know our teachers used it when I was in elementary school, but that was thirty years ago. Using it as an actual font is…unique.
Guess that answers Katz’s question why the letters don’t join.
Does Gramma morph into the worm? Get eaten by the worm? Do battle with the worm? Make a pet of it? Save it from a life of tomato stealing crime?
Who is Gramma? I thought the blurb said aunt.
The title says “Gramma”. But I did wonder why she’s not mentioned in the blurb if the book’s about her.
Yeah, that what confuses me too. Maybe the author changed it from grandma to an aunt and didn’t bother with changing the title.
This is so amateurish that “pathetic” can’t even begin to describe it. This looks like a 3rd grader did it.
This cover reminds me of the giant mollusks in The Monster That Challenged the World. I cannot be objective about covers that remind me of childhood traumas.
I think we can all objectively agree it sucks.