![]() The result is transcendent, and does the reader far more good than a Peloton class and a cup of turmeric tea. Wrestling the notion of physical self-improvement from the clammy hands of the so-called wellness industry, Bechdel puts it instead in the context not only of her own struggle to be happy (exercise is her balm), but of centuries of literary and social history. It was wonderful to see Alison Bechdel, of Fun Home fame, return with The Secret to Superhuman Strength(Cape), a knowingly neurotic memoir of her lifelong obsession with fitness that covers so much territory – what other writer would detour into Jane Fonda and William Wordsworth? – it demands to be reread immediately. Modan is a genius and I hope lots of people will read this story with its ending that might have been borrowed from Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust – and then, perhaps, seek out her earlier books, Exit Wounds and The Property. But it works on a deeper level, too, its real subject being contested land, and all the ways in which competing narratives are imposed on such territory. It’s impossible not to think of Tintin as you turn this book’s pages: here are good guys, and bad guys, and museum-standard sarcophagi. Graphics designed by Cari Lake of Literature Across Frontiers.I also loved Tunnels by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly translated by Ishai Mishory), in which two rival archaeologists attempt to find the Ark of the Covenant beneath the wall that separates Israel from the West Bank. Illustration credits: Pablo Gallo and Thiago Lopes. What is #WorldKidLitMonth and how to get involved? Your questions answered here! Translated from the Japanese by Casey Loe Translated from the Russian by Lada Morozova Written and illustrated by Alexander Utkin Translated from the French by Dan Christensen Illustrated by David Evrard colored by Walter Written by Jean-David Morvan and Séverine Tréfouël Reviews: Kirkus starred review Publishers Weekly starred review Translated from the French by David Bryon, James Hogan and Ivanka T. Written and illustrated by Pascal Jousselin Many thanks to the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative for the kind permission to repost this review, which first appeared on their blog in September 2021 for WorldKidLit month. But don’t feel bad if your favs didn’t win: this year’s field was studded with GN gems! Read your way through a category or three and see if you can predict the winner before watching the awards ceremony or checking out the winners. You can see the entire list of Eisner nominations here. Only the telepathic Anya knows everyone’s secret-but with a four-year-old’s filter… All sorts of complications ensue as the pseudo-family hiccups along. Unlikely, right? Yet it works hilariously well. Unbeknownst to him, Anya, the 4-year-old girl he adopts, is a telepath who gained her psychic abilities from a government experiment, and Yor, his brand new wife, is a trained assassin who goes by the code name of Thorn Princess and agrees to be his make-believe wife due to complications with her family and at work. Single due to his profession, he must create an instant family, which he sets about accomplishing under the alias of Loid Forger. In this zany YA manga translated from Japanese, master spy Twilight is ordered to infiltrate a most exclusive private school, Eden Academy. Gamayun Tales I, An Anthology of Modern Russian Folktales Highly recommended, Irena was a close second to Mr. Although only the second and third volumes could be nominated this year (the first was released in 2019), you really need to read all three, and in order, as the first focuses on the war years and the second and third continue her story via flashbacks to the war. The books cover her wartime actions, her capture-and torture-by the Gestapo, her postwar struggles to reunite the children with their birth families, and her feelings of guilt for not having been able to save more of them. While Sendlerowa (also known as Sendler) has been the subject of a number of biographies, this well-researched, beautifully executed trilogy is the only GN treatment I’m aware of. Often called the female Schindler, she saved about 2500 children during WWII by gradually smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto, a remarkable achievement that earned her the postwar title of “Righteous Among Nations” and nominations for the Nobel Prize in 20. Irena is a deeply moving French 3-volume GN series for YA readers about Polish social worker Irena Sendlerowa (1910-2008). ![]()
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