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THE GRAPHIC CANON OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Russ Kick

The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals

Great children's literature is great literature, period.

And it's not just for children. The original three-volume anthology THE GRAPHIC CANON presented the world's classic literature - from
ancient times to the late twentieth century - as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this followup volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from childhood and your teenage years . . . they're all here, in all their original complexity and strangeness, before they were censored, dumbed-down, or sanitized.

It includes works from Aesop fables to Peter Pan, from Harry Potter to Hunger Games. And here too, as in The Graphic Canon, the publishers around the world are free to include works from their own national literature.
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Published 2014-11-01 by Seven Stories Press

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Some of history's most skillful wielding of tales has refused to bend to the false divide between "children's" and "adult" storytelling . . . On the heels of the year's best children's books comes a magnificent embodiment of that ethos in The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature. -- Brainpickings Read more...

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(...)These dazzlingly varied renderings run the gamut from haunting to comical while offering visceral reminders that children's stories are often densely layered, infinitely transposable, and peddle in imagery both macabre and whimsical. (...) --- starred PW review. Read more...

...visually stunning... highly recommended. - starred review, School Library Journal