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The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature
  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609805302
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $105.00

The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature

The World's Greatest Kid's 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: $105.00
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About the author

Russ Kick

Founder of the website The Memory Hole, which archived sensitive and difficult to find official documents, RUSS KICK has devoted much of his life to digging up what others hope to keep buried. His bestselling anthologies, including You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, have sold over half a million copies. The New York Times has dubbed Kick "an information archaeologist," Details magazine described Kick as “a Renaissance man,” and Utne Reader named him one of its “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Russ Kick lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee, and Tucson, Arizona.
portrait photo of Russ Kick

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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

  • "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