For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleA fantastic collection of fairy tales in the form of comics. The book features various tales, from big ones from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault to lesser known ones such as "The Small Tooth Dog". I really enjoyed the various interpretations of...
A copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This collection of fairy tales is wonderful. Each tale comes from a different source; the brothers Grimm and old Russian/Chinese/French tales. It was really cute because each story had a different artistic rend...
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When I was approved for this one, I decided I wanted to go ahead and read it with the kids to see what they thought. And I'm glad I did because they really enjoyed it! Putting fairy tales like this into comic book form is pretty genius. Those are two of my kids' favorite things! (And I suspect they ...
A great anthology of graphic retellings of well-known and some more obscure fairy tales, each by different artists. My personal favorites were "Puss in Boots" and a wordless "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/09/graphic-novel-monday-spaniel-rage-by.html
If you were like the 99% of kids (according to the blurb) who hated middle school, then this book is full of ouch. Actually, even if you were one of the 1% (the cool kids who were not only popular but had neither academic nor family problems), then this book is full of at least second-hand ouch.A co...
An amazing and entertaining collection of nursery rhymes illustrated by cartoonists, illustrators, and graphic novel artists. It's great fun to see their visual interpretations of the rhymes. A few of my favorites: Nick Bruel's "Three Little Kittens," Rebecca Dart's "If All the Sea Were One Sea," Ja...
Ow. Reading this brought back very vivid memories of what used to be called junior high. As is usual in collections like this, there were some standout winners (both Ariel Schrag and her sister leap to mind) and some fairly forgettable bits. This is a warts and all evocation of adolescence- be warne...
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