![]() Pascal had originally planned to sell the idea as a daytime drama featuring teenage characters and it did eventually end up on TV. Set in California, the literary lineage of Francine Pascal occupies a place in my imagination somewhere between The Days of our Lives and Valley of the Dolls. SVH is an Aga saga in fluorescent ankle socks. Sweet Valley sold millions of copies and had many spin offs, chronicling the fate of Elizabeth and Jessica pre- and post-high school and also delivering bumper holiday special editions. But in a young teenage romance novel, a symbolic cover is probably over the teenagers’ heads-if you know what I mean.” We do know what he means. ![]() “Sometimes the story requires a literal illustration,” Mathewuse said in an article with Tallahassee magazine. Mathewuse, created the iconic paintings of the aqua-eyed, sweet sixteen-year-old twins we remember so well. ![]() The books were designed to be judged by their covers, just as Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield were nothing, if they weren’t blonde and beautiful. What is Sweet Valley? - a mythical place, an American dream, an idea, an ideal, or just the caramel dip between Jessica Wakefield’s thighs? There was a time in my life when I read Sweet Valley High and I read it as much for the covers as for what happened inside. ![]()
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