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2001 The Day I Disappeared

Paul Auster (text) and Jacques de Loustal (ill)
The Day I Disappeared, p. 55 -62

Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids
Art Spiegelman (Editor) Francoise Mouly (Editor)

Retail Price: $19.95
Format: Hardcover, 64pp.
ISBN: 0060286261
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date: September 2001
Recommend Age Range: 6




www.little-lit.com

From the Publisher
The second groundbreaking anthology from the New York Times best-selling team of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly is here! The everyday world is turned upside down and the ordinary becomes extraordinary in this collection of the strangest tales. From Art Spiegelman's "The Several Lives of Selby Sheldrake" to Maurice Sendak's "Cereal Baby Keller" to Jules Feiffer's "Trapped in a Comic Book," these stories are sure to entice any young reader. Also included are comics and features by Ian Falconer and David Sedaris, Paul Auster and Jacques de Loustal, Crockett Johnson, Richard MGuire, and Barbara McClintock, a puzzle by Lewis Trondheim, and make-your-own comic-book endpapers from Kaz, Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids continues the tradition of bring the pleasure of books and reading into the hands and minds of kids.

The Barnes & Noble Review  ( www.bn.com )
It's often bizarre, usually weird, occasionally creepy, and always fun. It's Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids, the second book in the quirky series that began with Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies. With a roster of writers and illustrators that reads like a who's who of children's lit, this offbeat collection of stories and activities is as eye-catching as it is thought-provoking. 

Marc Rosenthal offers an assortment of goofy jokes sure to tickle juvenile funny bones, while Paul Auster and Jacques De Loustal get serious with their tale about one man's experience when he steps -- quite literally -- outside himself. Francois Roca offers a picture of a cityscape in which at least 22 things seem oddly wrong or out of place, and for puzzle lovers, Lewis Trondheim has created the fittingly named "A-maze-ing Adventure," a story shaped like a maze that follows the travails of a squatty little character who finds himself trapped inside. 

From Britain's preeminent cartoonist, Posy Simmonds, comes the story of a vengeful and mean-spirited Mr. Frost, who drives home that old adage about being careful what you wish for. Kim Deitch takes readers along to Katropolis, a world inhabited by cats and powered by dogs, while Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jules Feiffer tells the story of a boy trapped inside a comic book with a couple of battling superheroes. Caldecott-winning author Barbara McClintock follows the adventures of a runaway shadow, while Martin Handford, the author of Where's Waldo?, asks readers to examine a busy full-page picture to try to find 11 odd socks, 10 aliens, and 6 worms. There's also an ugly little girl who hates the fact that she's turned pretty; a baby that eats everything in sight...including his family; a Fairy Godfather with a temporary case of amnesia; and a house that decides to run away from home. 

Strange Stories for Strange Kids may not be your typical fare, but it's never dull. These colorful pages, quirky characters, and twisted adventures will provide hours of stimulating fun to young minds of all ages. (Beth Amos)


From the Publisher
The second groundbreaking anthology from the New York Times best-selling team of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly is here! The everyday world is turned upside down and the ordinary becomes extraordinary in this collection of the strangest tales. From Art Spiegelman's "The Several Lives of Selby Sheldrake" to Maurice Sendak's "Cereal Baby Keller" to Jules Feiffer's "Trapped in a Comic Book," these stories are sure to entice any young reader. Also included are comics and features by Ian Falconer and David Sedaris, Paul Auster and Jacques de Loustal, Crockett Johnson, Richard MGuire, and Barbara McClintock, a puzzle by Lewis Trondheim, and make-your-own comic-book endpapers from Kaz, Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids continues the tradition of bring the pleasure of books and reading into the hands and minds of kids.

 


Little Lit: Seltsame Geschichten -A. Spiegelman 
Carlsen Verlag 1. Auflage 2002.
Hardcover Album im Überformat (34x24,5cm).
Comicanthologie herausgegeben von Art Spiegelman und Françoise 
Mouly 
Mit Beiträgen von Art Spiegelman, Lewis Trondheim, Kim Deitch, 
Maurice Sendak, Paul Auster & Jacques de Loustal u.a.



Little Lit: Strane storie per Strani Ragazzi


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p.62


Paul Auster has recently collaborated with artist Jacques de Loustal to produce his first original comic book 'The Day I Disappeared'. Nelly Reifler, Paul Auster's assistant, has told me that "the comic is part of Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly's Little Lit kids' book series, and is in a book with a bunch of other comics." Publishers Weekly call it "a melancholy Kafka-esque noir tale." And School Library Journal tells us that the story involves "a man separated from his physical being [who] must rescue himself from drowning."And finally Amazon summarise the story as "a man who's found he's disappeared".

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