Susan
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Kim van Alkemade:
My reading group has spent time discussing the covers of books. There was significant importance placed on the cover design, there were many different opinions of the cover and meanings, including insights that hadn't occurred to me.I've become curious about your great book and it's covers.How many different covers are there for Orphan #8? What do you consider when you choose of or approve a cover?
Kim van Alkemade
Hi Susan, I know, isn't it amazing the variations on the covers for the different editions? The original cover was the only one my editor presented to me and I loved it immediately. I do get a quick approval over each cover but so far I've only made one suggestion about making sure the girl on the cover had dark hair instead of blonde hair. They each seem to reflect the cultural aesthetics of the different countries. Check out my Facebook page and you'll see the Japanese cover, it is amazing!
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Angela
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Kim van Alkemade:
I could not put this book down. The book opened my curiosity to search other institutions at that time that experimented on children. I was shocked to see how common it was. Your book is very informative in a very good story kind of way. Just wanted to say thank you for the book. I was wondering if you were aware of Willowbrook in Staten Island?
Ronald
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Kim van Alkemade:
My dad Martin Weiss left the orphanage in Tuckahoe on his bar mitzvah. His father had died when he was 6 and his older siblings refused to go with my grandmother, a zionist to Palestine, but in fact she traveled the south a religious zealot until committed and died in 1941 with the kids thinking she had gone to Palestine. I have a picture of my dad's basketball team. Where can I find old pictures? thank you.
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