Reimagining the Books That Shaped Us

In this four week Delve, we’ll revisit four iconic works of middle grade fiction— Island of the Blue Dolphins , Hatchet , Julie of the Wolves , and Jacob Have I Loved . We will come to these books as adults with new questions. Part of our exploration will be the books’ covers: how they changed across decades, how marketing shaped their reception, and how visual design influenced the way young readers approached them. Throughout the course, we will weave between how the books existed in their tim