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A picture book for grownups

January 18, 2018 by soapyme Leave a Comment

I think that there must be a moment during everyone’s childhood when you realize that adults are not infallible, not even your own parents. Over twenty years later, I can still remember my own personal moment, and those feelings are captured perfectly in Louis Undercover, written by playwright Fanny Britt and beautifully illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Louis is a young boy whose parents have separated. He and his little brother, Truffle, are shuttled between their mother’s apartment in the city and their father’s house in the […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: 2018 favorites, fanny britt, Isabelle Arsenault

For Gina, and Meika, and Keri – thanks for picking me up.

July 24, 2015 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My choice to read Jane, the Fox, and Me was influenced by my participation in the Read Harder Challenge. Tasks 19 and 20 are to read a work originally published in another language and a graphic novel, graphic memoir, or collection of comics of any kind. I had some other books picked out for these tasks, and I have every intention of reading them, but when bonnie and the Chancellor’s reviews of this book back in January I knew that this was something I wanted […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, Young Adult Tagged With: bullying, faintingviolet, fanny britt, Graphic Novel, Jane the fox and me, read harder challenge

How Jane and a Fox ease the pain of cruelty

January 28, 2015 by bonnie 3 Comments

The Chancellor read a comics compilation this Cannonball read, and he recommended Fanny Britt’s Jane, the Fox, and Me. I was highly intrigued–I like Jane Eyre, and I LOVE foxes. So I was excited to see what this was all about. I was not prepared to work out my tear ducts. Hélène is a bullied young teenager in Quebec. She used to be friends with the popular girls in school, but now they gawk and giggle when she walks by, and they write terrible things […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, fanny britt, Graphic Novel

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