May 9, 2013On Our Radar

YA Author Maureen Johnson Calls for an End to Gendered Cover Designs with a “Coverflip” Challenge

This idea that there are ‘girl books’ and ‘boy books’ and ‘chick lit’ and ‘whatever is the guy equivalent of chick lit’* gives credit to absolutely no one, especially not the boys who will happily read stories by women, about women. As a lover of books and someone who supports readers and writers of both sexes, I would love a world in which books are freed from some of these constraints.”