Racial Outrage Prompts New Cover For Children’s Book

Justine Larbalestier’s Liar, to be published in October, is getting a redesign. “Bloggers, commentors and the author herself had criticized the publisher’s choice of a white girl with long, straight tresses for [the cover of] a novel about an African-American girl with ‘nappy’ hair.” Bloomsbury Children’s Books said the original design “was intended to symbolically reflect the narrator’s complex psychological makeup.”