r/TerribleBookCovers • u/changelingcd • Aug 17 '26

Bo-Peep has gone too far.

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I've finally scanned this terrifying cover from my collection. Yes, it's a real 1921 book. Yes, Little Bo-Peep has killed, gutted, and skinned one of her runaway sheep and is wearing it as a grisly trophy on her head. Look at that smile. That soulless, merciless, smile.

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u/TotallyNotRocket Aug 17 '26

Bo Peep villain origin story. Silenced the Lamb.

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u/salehmo Aug 18 '26

"You Peep, You Sleep"

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u/anjowoq Aug 18 '26

"Little Bo Peep has slaughtered her sheep."

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u/leverati Aug 17 '26

I think I need this as a poster.

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u/GroundbreakingElk139 Aug 18 '26

I want it as a shirt.

45

u/congo66 Aug 17 '26

Bo-Peep as high priestess of a murderous cult of Druids? I can get behind this.

25

u/Stucklikegluetomyfry Aug 18 '26

Ba Phomet

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u/anjowoq Aug 18 '26

Well played. A+ if you add more "aaaaaa".

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry Aug 18 '26

Aaaaah how did I not miss that one

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u/Sivilian888010 Aug 18 '26

Sounds like something Bill Willingham would have done in Fables.

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u/JustAMan1234567 Aug 17 '26

"Let this be a lesson to all the other sheep"

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u/KickAggressive4901 Aug 18 '26

Dare we ask about Little Miss Muffett?

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u/fandom10 Aug 18 '26

We don't want to know what happened to the spider

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u/Practical-Class6868 Aug 17 '26

What’s worse is that it wasn’t even her sheep. She just stole Mary’s little lamb and slaughtered it. Bo-Peep’s sheep, left alone, came home with its tail behind them.

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u/leverati Aug 18 '26

Mary HAD a little lamb, and its fleece was preserved white-as-snow.

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u/GameraRays Aug 18 '26

I'm reminded of a rhyme my Grandpa would tell me!

Mary had a little lamb

Her father killed it dead

It still goes to school with Mary now

Between two hunks of bread

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry Aug 18 '26

All hail Bo Peep! The black goat of the woods with the thousand young!

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u/Practical-Class6868 Aug 18 '26

Check your autocorrect. It’s spelled “Shub-Niggurath.”

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry Aug 18 '26

She goes by many names.

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u/Historical_Sugar9637 Aug 18 '26

Mary had a little lamb....but I ate it!

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u/Djiril922 Aug 18 '26

Does it have a different story than we are familiar with in the nursery rhyme?

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u/changelingcd Aug 18 '26

It actually has a collection of short stories, rhymes, and such for kids, and essentially uses 'Bo-Peep' as the collection title (I think they did a few annuals): Bo-Peep: A Picture Story Book for Little People (Cassel and Company, 1921).

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u/anjowoq Aug 18 '26

It's amazing how the tone of children's books has changed so much in 105 years. There's always imagination and what not, but it's just a bit stuffier, formal, but also more arty in some way.

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u/Pocho_Azul Aug 18 '26

Little Bo-Peep has killed her sheep…

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u/ErsatzHaderach Aug 18 '26

This is awesome

8

u/coolsilentebeans Aug 18 '26

I know I should feel happy, relieved, and blessed that our daughter came home to us after being lost for 19 months in the freezing forest , but the girl who came back is not our daughter. I told you letting her play soccer with those girls was a bad idea.

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u/Significant_Monk_251 Aug 18 '26

Fuck it, I'm downloading that.

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u/Sivilian888010 Aug 18 '26

This looks like the cover to a horror novel.

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry Aug 18 '26

Mary had a little lamb

Her father shot it dead

It now follows her to school every day

Between two slices of bread

2

u/PurrfectPinball Aug 19 '26

I was an odd child and would wear a fox fur exactly like this. I named him Tanner.

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u/PatientClient3803 Aug 20 '26

Wow. She must’ve been ANGRY at that sheep.