The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature
  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609805302
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $95.00

The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature

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

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In this follow-up volume to the lauded Graphic Canon series, master anthologist Russ Kick shows adults everywhere that great children's literature is great literature, period. And that 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 follow-up 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 or sanitized.
  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609805302
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $95.00
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About the author

Russ Kick

Russ Kick is the editor of You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know Is Wrong, Abuse Your Illusions
and Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong. He is the author of 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know Volumes 1 & 2 and The Disinformation Book of Lists. He is a regular contributor to the Village Voice.

Also by Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery Vol 2
The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Vol. 1
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2
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Praise for The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature

  • "Great literature leaves us not just with extraordinary stories; the language also leaves an image--a rich and expansive painting of the world written on the page. In "The Graphic Canon," the world's literature is reimagined as comics and visual art, and with it the editor, Russ Kick, has struck a chord."--NEW YORK TIMES, Editor's Choice
  • "Easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory."--NPR
  • "All diamond, no rough" "startlingly brilliant" "a masterpiece"--SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
  • "An exciting new benchmark for comics!"--LIBRARY JOURNAL
  • "A treasure trove for literary comics fans."--WIRED