5/11/2023 0 Comments Jack in the box art spiegelmanLife is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. “I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. Comics are better than easy readers.” Spiegelman offers an antidote to these books in Jack’s story of mastering his imagination vis-à-vis a new toy. Then there are these books that are sold like coal-they’re four bucks apiece and sold as the lowest-denominator retellings of Cinderella with images. It starts with the medicine version in school- See Dick run. “The books that are provided when that light goes on really suck. And then you’re like, Oh, I see! They just get it.” But the cartoonist has sharp words for the book industry. Until my kids got it, they didn’t get it. You have to crack the code and the system. When kids are 4 to 6, this reading thing happens. Spiegelman learned from his kids as he and Mouly worked together to create the Toon Books series: “It’s a classy version of easy readers. On November 22, Spiegelman will attend Books of Wonder’s Rollicking Picture Book Day event to read from his newest kids “comic,” Jack and the Box. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the graphic memoir Maus is also a New York dad of two in a bookish family his wife, Françoise Mouly, founded Toon Books, an imprint aimed at emerging readers. Photo: Nadja Spiegelman/courtesy of Pantheon BooksĬhildren learn to read in all sorts of ways, and Art Spiegelman sees a distinct line from comic books to literacy.
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