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I just finished Travels of Thelonious: The Fog Mound. It is the first in a series of a great kid's books that I just happened upon in the bookstore not long ago. It's unique in that it alternates text chapters with graphic novel-style chapters. Oh, and the story is wonderful and compelling, incorporating visual wonder as well as expanded vocabulary. (Not necessarily GRE-level vocab, but language one doesn't usually associate with 5th graders -- a good thing!) I highly recommend this book!
My next read, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, just got out of processing at the library. (See, we catalogers get first dibs on the cool shit!) It's also a mix of text-based storytelling interspersed with pages and pages of black and white pencil drawings. It's about a little boy and a robot who live in the subway tunnels of Paris. How cool is that going to be? Very!
2 comments:
Thats great! Thelonius Chipmunk! Ha!
I finished Hugo and I must say it was very enjoyable. A good story, excellent illustrations, wonderful use of comix theory, as in --- the story flowed seamlessly from text to image and vice versa. For Selznick, the old cliche of 1000 words is true for his drawings. Highly recommended.
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