This book is clearly about Dapper Jiminy Cricket showing up to offer Sad Woman fashion advice on her torn stockings and unruly hair. Oh look, an even uglier variation on the same lackluster theme.

Hey it’s essentially the same boring book cover, with less BSC! YAWN. JUST WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED! This book, with a bonus introduction by the author of The Baby-sitters Club! Because that makes all the sense in the world! Precocious Orphan and book-lover Anne Shirley is inadvertently adopted by aging brother-sister duo, Marilla and Matthew Cuthb-wait, haven’t I read this book already? Is this dashing, top-hatted man the dreamy gentleman caller Emily has been waiting for, or the cold-blooded serial strangler known as “Daddy-Long-Legs,” out for a night on the town in his murder gloves? OMG LOOK OUT THERE IS A CREEPY MAN WHO FOLLOWED YOU HOME LURKING BEHIND YOU!īarbara-Jean is hatching a plot that will lure hunky Steve Johnson into her clutches at last! Seriously, what the hell is this book about? Any guesses? No? Ok, well here are some other alternatives: But this edition probably hasn’t been in print for 50, 60 years? What else have you got for me, internet? Including a collection of the world’s worst covers ever to besmirch the name of a really good book. So Megan no h introduced me to this book (THANK YOU MEGAN <3 <3 <3!!!), and she was kind enough to send me all her research on the subject. Bonus Factors: Anne Shirley Award for Precocious Orphanhood, Women’s College, Patronage

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster