About the Background

The background of our website uses art from the cover of the most recent issue of Foreword Reviews, which is sourced from one of the books we reviewed in that issue.

Mar/Apr 2024 (current)

Cover image from The Last Zookeeper. Copyright © 2024 by Aaron Becker. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA. Reviewed. Reviewed here.

Jan/Feb 2024

Cover image from The Heirloomed Kitchen: Made-from-Scratch Recipes to Gather Around for Generations, by Ashley Schoenith, Heidi Harris (Photographer). Used with permission from Gibbs Smith. Reviewed here.

Nov/Dec 2023

Cover image from The Brothers Zzli, by Alex Cousseau Anne-Lise Boutin, Illustrator, Vineet Lal, Translator. Used with permission from Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. Reviewed here.

Sept/Oct 2023

Cover image from Fashioning the Beatles: The Looks that Shook the World, by Deirdre Kelly. Used with permission from Sutherland House Press. Reviewed here.

July/August 2023

Cover image from Iconic Composers: A Celebration of Music’s Extraordinary Composers, by Nicholas Csicsko, Emi Ferguson; David Lee Csicsko (Illustrator). Used with permission from Trope Publishing. Reviewed here.

MAY/JUNE 2023

Photo from The Pride Atlas: 500 Iconic Destinations for Queer Travelers by Maartje Hensen, published by Chronicle Books 2023. Reviewed here.