Novella Cuisine Classics Illustrated Is Back, Hoping to Entice Young Readers - and Nostalgic Boomers - with Comic-Book Kipling and ShakespeareJeff Daniel Of The Post-Dispatch
Illustrated by Ellie Arscott. Cree, a young Nehiyaw girl, never fails to marvel at the neat stuff her kind aunt collects from garage sales. But this time, Auntie has brought a surprise. Unable to guess what it is, Cree is delighted when Auntie reveals a “puppy.” Nehiyaw people consid...
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My years as a very young reader fell squarely within the heyday of Classics Illustrated, a 160-plus-volume comic-book series that condensed and simplified great works of literature into 40 or 50 pages of cartoon frames. They might have horrified the original authors, but the little comics ...