The graphic canon of children's literature
Subtitle: the world's great kids' lit as comics and visuals
By: edited by Russ Kick
Edition: A Seven Stories Press First Edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9781609805302
Subjects: Literature; Graphic novels in education; Children's literature; Comic books, strips; Adaptations
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 468) and index.
Table of contents: title: The miller, his son, and the donkey  -- Aesop, art/adaptation by Roberta Gregory; title: The eagle, the cat, and the sow  -- Aesop, art/adaptation by Roberta Gregory; title: The ape and the fisherman  -- Aesop, art/adaptation by Peter Kuper; title: The wasp and the snake  -- Aesop art/adaptation by Peter Kuper; title: The lion in love  -- Aesop, art/adaptation by Lance Tooks; title: The fox and the grapes  -- Aesop, art/adaptation by Lance Tooks; title: The city mouse and the country mouse  -- Aesop, art/adaptation by Lance Tooks; title: Little red riding hood  -- European fairy tale, art/adaptation by David W. Tripp; title: The mastermind  -- Norse fairy tale, art/adaptation by Andrice Arp; title: The firebird  -- Russian fairy tale, art/adaptation by Lesley Barnes; title: The shepardess and the condor  -- Peruvian fairy tale, art/adaptation by Miguel Molina; title: The weardale fairies  -- British fairy tale, art/adaptation by Rachael Ball; title: Four fables  -- Jean de La Fountaine, art/adaptation by Maell Doliveux; title: Town musicians of Bremen  -- Brothers Grimm, art/adaptation by Kevin H. Dixon; title: A tale of one who traveled to learn what shivering meant  -- Brothers Grimm, art/adaptation by Chandra Free, technical assists by BLAM! Ventures; title: Star dollars  -- Brothers Grimm, art/adaptation by Noah Van Sciver; title: The water-sprite  -- Brothers Grimm, art/adaptation by Noah Van Sciver; title: The nutcracker and the mouse king  -- E.T.A. Hoffmann, art/adaptation by Sanya Glisic; title: The little mermaid  -- Hans Christian Andersen, art/adaptation by Dame Darcy; title: The tinderbox  -- Hans Christian Andersen, art/adaptation by Isabel Greenberg; title: Goldilocks and the three bears  -- British fairy tale, art/adaptation by Billy Nunez; title: Advice to little girls  -- Mark Twain, art/adaptation by Frank M. Hensen; title: Alice's adventures in wonderland  -- Lewis Carroll, art/adaptation by Vicki Nerino; title: Fables for children  -- Leo Tolstoy, art/adaptation by Keren Katz; title: 20,000 leagues under the sea  -- Jules Verne, art/adaptation by Sandy Jimenez; title: The owl and the pussycat  -- Edward Lear, art/adaptation by Joy Kolitsky; title: The adventures of Tom Sawyer  -- Mark Twain, art/adaptation by R. Sikoryak; title: At the back of the North wind -- -- George MacDonald, art/adaptation by Dasha Tolstikova; title: Heidi  -- Johanna Spyri, art/adaptation by Molly Brooks; title: The tar baby (from The Tales of Uncle Remus)  -- Joel Chandler Harris, art/adaptation by Eric Knisley; title: The adventures of Pinocchio  -- Carlo Collodi, art/adaptation by Molly Colleen O'Connell; title: Treasure Island  -- Robert Louis Stevenson, adaptation by Lisa Fary, art by Kate Eagle and John Dallaire; title: The nightingale and the rose  -- Oscar Wilde, art/adaptation by Tara Seibel; title: The jungle book  -- Rudyard Kipling, art/adaptation by Caroline Picard; title: The time machine  -- H.G. Wells, art/adaptation by Matthew Houston; title: The Oz series  -- L. Frank Baum, art/adaptation by Shawn Cheng; title: Peter Pan  -- J.M. Barrie, art/adaptation by Sally Madden; title: The wind in the willows  -- Kenneth Grahame, art/adaptation by Andrea Tsurumi; title: The secret garden  -- Frances Hodgson Burnett, art/adaptation by Juliacks; title: The velveteen rabbit  -- Margery Williams, art/adaptation by Kate Glasheen; title: Rootabaga stories  -- Carl Sandburg, art/adaptation by C. Frakes; title: The tower treasure (a Hardy boys mystery)  -- Franklin W. Dixon, art/adaptation by Matt Wiegle; title: Peter and the wolf  -- Sergei Prokofiev, art/adaptation by Katherine Hearst; title: Pippi Longstocking  -- Astrid Lindgren, art/adaptation by Emelie Ostergren; title: The diary of a young girl  -- Anne Frank, adaptation by Sid Jacobson, art Ernie Colon; title: Schoolyard Rhymes  -- art/adaptation by John W. Pierard; title: Watership down  -- Richard Adams, art/adaptation by Tori Christina McKenna; title: The Harry Potter Series -- J.K. Rowlings, art/adaptation by Lucy Knisley.