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WINNER: The Most Depressingly Dumb Book Cover of 2013!

Anne of Green Gables is supposed to be freckled, red-haired, and (at least at the beginning of the series) prepubescent. The new artwork for the cover is almost as opposite as one can get without deciding to recast Anne as a dude.

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Kaye Toal

What Anne of Green Gables should look like:

What Anne of Green Gables looks like now:

What my face looks like having seen this:

Update: It appears that so many people were upset by this cover that it was taken off of Amazon. Well done, Internet!

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