Hot dog! Boys’ Life cover wins national recognition as Readers’ Choice

Boys-Life-September-2014-coverYou can never go wrong with a dog on a magazine cover.

Case in point: The “aww”-inspiring September 2014 cover of Boys’ Life that just won a Readers’ Choice Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.

The cover, which depicts a lovable Labrador retriever in a canoe, won in the Lifestyle category. (The cover story is as great as the cover itself, by the way.)

Winning a Readers’ Choice Award is especially meaningful because the voters are regular readers like you. Voting took place on Facebook beginning in mid-January with 10 entries per category. The most-liked cover by the April 12 deadline took home the prize.

Boys’ Life beat other great covers in the Lifestyle category, which included magazines like Coastal Living and Vice. 

In its writeup about the winning cover, ASME said:

Photographer Patrick Schneider knew he was setting up his two sons for a long goodbye when the family agreed to help train Kajsa to be a guide dog. The Labrador retriever went everywhere, including Scout outings, with Quinn and Ethan for 18 months. Eventually the Schneiders had to say “so long” to the dog that had become a member of the family — not to mention a great canoe partner — but they know Kajsa is helping others. This fantastic photo helped draw young Boys’ Life readers into Kajsa’s tale to learn about how guide dogs are trained (and loved).

Congrats to Boys’ Life on this honor.

Want to see other great Boys’ Life covers?

Go here for a gallery of BL covers and relive the awesomeness.

Oh, and if you subscribe to Boys’ Life you’ll get to see these cool covers up close every month.


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