I realized why when I finally checked it out. I have had this book on my reading list for a while and I've kept putting off reading it. Despite all these three points I don't think this cover choice was a good one. Third, if covers have a picture of the characters they should do their best to make the picture of the character look like how the character is described in the book (no blond skinny girls when there is a plump black hair girl.). Second, I admit this is what I imagine Rodzina looked like at the beginning of the book (her features were the same at the end, but her expression was probably a lot different). I can tell she read this book and thought a lot about Rodzina and what she would possibly look like. First of all I really like Trina Schart Hyman. I am not one who usually makes a big deal about what the cover of a book has (though my graphic designer husband says everyone judges books by their cover even if they don't know they are doing it). I'm afraid the first thing I need to start with is the cover.
Once again, Karen Cushman brings us a compelling story that is thoroughly researched, full of memorable characters, and told with wry humor and keen observation by an absolutely captivating narrator. But no placement seems right for the formidable Rodzina, and she cleverly finds a way out of one bad situation after another, until at last she finds the family that is right for her. As the train rattles westward, Rodzina unwittingly begins to develop attachments to her fellow travelers, even the frosty orphan guardian, and to accept the idea that there might be good homes for orphans-maybe even for a big, combative Polish girl. She expects to be adopted and turned into a slave-or worse, not to be adopted at all. She's reluctant to leave Chicago, the only home she can remember, and she knows there's no substitute for the family she has lost.
One of a group of orphans, 12-year-old Rodzina boards a train on a cold day in March 1881. Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski is the new face in Karen Cushman's gallery of unforgettable heroines.
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