Wild Things & Graphic Novels

Recommendations from our staff that appeared in our 2009 Winter Newsletter.











Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (Hardcover)

By Gregory Maguire
$27.50
ISBN-13: 9780061689161
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: William Morrow, 9/2009
The New York Times bestselling author of Wicked presents an inspired visual tribute to the work of legendary writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak. Published in 1963 to great critical acclaim, Maurice Sendak’s Caldecott Award-winning Where the Wild Things Are has sold millions of copies worldwide, garnered countless awards, and been translated into nineteen languages. Making Mischief pays tribute to the visionary author and illustrator, his profound understanding of children, and his stunningly imaginative and groundbreaking work that carried the picture book so much higher and farther than it had ever flown.

The Wild Things (Hardcover)

By Dave Eggers
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9781934781623
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Published: McSweeney's Books, 10/2009
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Full disclosure: Dave Eggers is my favorite author. With that in mind, I was still highly skeptical when I learned he had been given the task of turning Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are into a 300-page young adult novel. My fears, of course, were unfounded. Eggers pulls at the basic theme present in the children’s classic—a desire to belong—and expands it to fill a world of immature monsters and Max, the lost boy who becomes king. Eggers also wrote the screenplay for the forthcoming film, and his passion for the project (and loyalty to Sendak) make The Wild Things as worthy an effort as any of his previous titles. —Z.G.R.

Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)

By Joe Sacco
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780805073478
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Metropolitan Books, 12/2009
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For those unfamiliar with Sacco, he has, in recent years, occupied a unique place in graphic literature as a comic-reporter. Sacco, like Art Spiegelman and others, has reappropriated the comic form from its relegation as a medium solely for superheroes and Sunday funnies. The author has previously explored Palestine and Bosnia, and now takes his keen eye and pen to Gaza, where he investigates a long-forgotten crime in the much-beleaguered city. Footnotes in Gaza delivers on its intent to redefine Gaza from how the newspapers portray it, by focusing on a murder and its consequences. —Z.G.R.
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