{"product_id":"the-graphic-canon-of-childrens-literature-isbn-9781609805302","title":"The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature","description":"The original three-volume anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Graphic Canon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"A masterful success. If [Russ Kick would] unleash several other loose \u003ci\u003eCanons\u003c\/i\u003e, I’d be living happily ever after.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003ePrint\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some of history’s most skillful wielding of tales has refused to bend to the false divide between “children’s” and “adult” storytelling ... On the heels of the year’s best children’s books comes a magnificent embodiment of that ethos in The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature\" \u003cb\u003e—Maria Popova, \u003ci\u003eBrain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These dazzlingly varied  renderings run the gamut from haunting to comical while offering  visceral reminders that children's stories are often densely layered,  infinitely transposable, and peddle in imagery both macabre and  whimsical. It is the unfettered imagination of these stories that make  them not only wildly entertaining, but also vessels of forgotten truths.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFounder 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 \u003ci\u003eYou Are Being Lied To\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEverything You Know Is Wrong,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301054828773,"sku":"NP9781609805302","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609805302.jpg?v=1767739614","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-graphic-canon-of-childrens-literature-isbn-9781609805302","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}