The graphic canon of children's literature

By Russell Kick

Subjects: Children's literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature, Literature, Comics & graphic novels, literary, Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism, Comic books, strips, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS, LITERARY CRITICISM, Graphic novels in education, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Anthologies, Children's Literature, Adaptations, Anthologies

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"--