My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, translated by...
When Dani can’t sleep, she doesn’t count sheep, she “counted all the times she’d been happy.” Now she’s also excited, as well as happy: “She’d waited her whole life to start school.” Her first day is...
View ArticleThe Hole by Øyvind Torseter, translated by Kari Dickson
So here I find myself facing a bit of a conundrum: how best to tell you about this whimsical delight without spoiling that giddy sense of discovery … The best option, of course, would be to take my...
View ArticleParis Was the Place by Susan Conley
In Susan Conley’s debut novel defined by deep relationships, the most intriguing alliances get neglected and overlooked for the more commonplace and predictable. Willow – called Willie – moves to Paris...
View ArticleThe Cemetery of Forgotten Books: The Shadow of the Wind, Angel’s Game, The...
Well, crud. In spite of making a list and checking it twice, thrice, and more, I read these in about as ‘wrong’ order as I possibly could. But before I offer two preventative options, some quick...
View ArticleA User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge...
After traveling and drawing the world – Pyongyang, Shenzhen, Burma, Jerusalem – comic master extraordinaire Guy Delisle turns inward to his own family with a tongue-in-cheek look at the challenges of...
View ArticleBlue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
From the very first page, you’ll learn that one lover is dead, while the other survives: “My love, when you read these words I will have left this world.” Emma is in transit to Clementine’s childhood...
View ArticleLine 135 by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine
Clearly this image is not doing justice to the book’s spirited cover with its bright lime green train and fluorescent orange doors. To appreciate its vibrancy is reason enough to go find the real book!...
View ArticleYokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan by Leslie...
‘Sprawling’ barely begins to describe journalist/editor Leslie Helm‘s ambitious family history that spans nearly a century-and-a-half, three continents, and the titular five generations of a German...
View ArticleA Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Kevin Wiliarty
Every once in a while, only the very best schmaltz will do. Earnest and endearing, this just-arriving-in-translation sequel to the international mega-bestseller, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, is a...
View ArticleHidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loïc Dauvillier, illustrated by...
Preorder this title now and you can stop reading here … you won’t, you can’t, you will not be disappointed. Oh, fine. If you’re still with me, let me tell you about Elsa, a little girl who just can’t...
View ArticleSchroder by Amity Gaige
This is an immigration story. But not the sort of immigration I’ve become accustomed to … only a select few could make the sort of metamorphosis that being white and male affords Erik Schroder who, at...
View ArticleMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Whenever I hear that a book is about to be transformed into celluloid, I get into a little panic to read the original, oftentimes titles I ironically wouldn’t have opened otherwise. Occasionally, I’m...
View ArticleThe Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonça and PizzaBoy (I and II: Apocalypse)...
While watching evening TV that’s been interrupted by a special bulletin about the unending “wave of child abductions in Lisbon,” Eurico nods off, only to be jarred awake by the ringing telephone. He’s...
View ArticleFagin the Jew by Will Eisner, foreword by Brian Michael Bendis, afterword by...
“I am Fagin the Jew of Oliver Twist,” begins the ‘father of the graphic novel’-Will Eisner‘s 21st-century literary reclamation of the 19th-century classic. “This is my story, one that has remained...
View ArticleCoyote Run by Gaëtan Dorémus
Here’s your oxymoron for the day: wordless books that convey so much. French illustrator/author Gaëtan Dorémus pays a kid-friendly homage to the American western … with whimsy, ingenuity, and (of...
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