“… members of the animal kingdom are among the distinctive
black-and-white line drawings that grace the covers of the quirky
technology books produced by O’Reilly & Associates…”
“At first everyone thought book covers with black-and-white
Victorian-style animal drawings seemed too far-out.”
“But after looking at Freedman’s samples on their bulletin board
for a week, O’Reilly staffers’ consensus was “Let’s do it!”
“Thus was born a menagerie that now adds about 80 animals a
year.”
“But Freedman is still waiting to use an image of a “lovely
hippopotamus.” The intended author, she says, said “absolutely
not…”