Chatterbox: In This Month's Issue

January cover!

It's my favorite so far! I've tried carving a tree on a printing block and printing it onto something else before, and it looked really bad, but this bush is awesome! The snow on the branches makes me feel wistful (we never get it here—okay, we had it for 1 day this year, but that's all, and it certainly wasn't enough to get on bushes, except for the very top)! The seedpods look like something I'd want to pick off the ground (there's always at least one that's fallen off the branch) and keep. The blossoms are gorgeous. The passerine is beautiful and graceful-looking! I've tried to draw birds many times, and I'm pretty good at the shape, actually, but the eyes always end up looking silly and foolish.  Therefore, I really do appreciate well-drawn birds.

In the summer, I think I might ask for a Cricket cover poster for my birthday. I haven't decided which, of course, as the 1 I'll like most may not have come yet, but I'm seriously thinking of asking for this one.

I normally wouldn't make an entire thread for this, but TM needs threads. So, I'm making a thread per day (I guess that's kind of taking Kenzie's idea, but I promise I'm not trying to copy, and I'm talking about TM's issue anyway, so it would actually be good if it started a fad,  but I'm sure it won't) until there's nothing left in the issue to talk about!

So, what did everyone else think of the cover?